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brassy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective brassy has 3 senses
- brassy(a = adj.pert) brasslike - resembling the sound of a brass instrument; Array Derived forms noun brass2, noun brass6
- brassy(s = adj.all) cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy - tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
- brassy(s = adj.all) audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent - unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress" Derived form noun brass4
CIDE DICTIONARY
brassy, a.
- Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass. [1913 Webster]
- Impudent; impudently bold. [1913 Webster]
brassy, n.
A wooden club soled with brass. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
brassy, adj. (brassier, brassiest)
1 impudent.
2 pretentious, showy.
3 loud and blaring.
4 of or like brass.
1 impudent.
2 pretentious, showy.
3 loud and blaring.
4 of or like brass.
Derivative
brassily adv. brassiness n.
brassy, brat n. usu. derog. a child, esp. an ill-behaved one.
Derivative
bratty adj.
Etymology
perh. abbr. of Sc. bratchart hound, or f. brat rough garment
THESAURUS
brassy
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