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Brassy definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BR'ASSY, a. Pertaining to brass; partaking of brass; hard as brass; having the color of brass.
1. Impudent; impudently bold.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: resembling the sound of a brass instrument [syn: brassy, brasslike]
2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy]
3: unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (brassier; -est) Date: 1576 1. a. shamelessly bold <a brassy reporter> b. obstreperous 2. resembling brass especially in color 3. resembling the sound of a brass instrument • brassily adverb • brassiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. adj. (brassier, brassiest) 1 impudent. 2 pretentious, showy. 3 loud and blaring. 4 of or like brass. Derivatives: brassily adv. brassiness n. 2. brat n. usu. derog. a child, esp. an ill-behaved one. Derivatives: bratty adj. Etymology: perh. abbr. of Sc. bratchart hound, or f. brat rough garment

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brassy Brass"y, n. [Written also brassie and brassey.] (Golf) A wooden club soled with brass.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brassy Brass"y, a. 1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass. 2. Impudent; impudently bold. [Colloq.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(brassier, brassiest) 1. Brassy music is bold, harsh, and loud. Musicians blast their brassy jazz from street corners. ADJ 2. If you describe a woman's appearance or her behaviour as brassy, you think that she does not have good taste, and that she dresses or behaves in a way that is too loud or vulgar. ...Alec and his brassy blonde wife... ADJ [disapproval] 3. Something that is brassy has a yellow metallic colour and sometimes looks cheap. A woman with big brassy ear-rings. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. (Colloq.) Bold, pert, assuming, forward, brazen, brazen-faced.

Moby Thesaurus

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