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Definition of Brassy
1. Adjective. Resembling the sound of a brass instrument.
2. Adjective. Tastelessly showy. "Tawdry ornaments"
Similar to: Tasteless
Derivative terms: Cheapness, Flash, Flashiness, Garishness, Garishness, Gaud, Gaudiness, Gaudiness, Loudness, Meretriciousness, Tackiness, Tat, Tawdriness, Trashiness
3. Adjective. Unrestrained by convention or propriety. "The modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"
Similar to: Unashamed
Derivative terms: Audaciousness, Audacity, Brass, Brazenness, Insolence
Definition of Brassy
1. a. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
2. n. A wooden club soled with brass.
Definition of Brassy
1. Adjective. Resembling brass. ¹
2. Adjective. (informal) Impudent; impudently bold. ¹
3. Noun. ''Same as'' '''brassie''' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brassy
1. resembling brass [adj BRASSIER, BRASSIEST] : BRASSILY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brassy
| brast brasting brasts brat bratchet bratchets bratling bratlings bratpack brats | brattice bratticed |
Literary usage of Brassy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon (1908)
"CHAPTER VII brassy AND SPOON Good strokes with the brassy—Flay as with the ...
WHEN to your caddie you say " Give me my brassy " it is a sign that there is ..."
2. A Manual of British Coleoptera, Or Beetles: Containing a Brief Description by James Francis Stephens (1839)
"Flat ; brassy-black : thorax faintly wrinkled transversely, with a slight fovea
on each side at the base ; elytra deep blue-black, faintly striated, ..."
3. The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art by Canadian Institute (1849-1914). (1862)
"thorax brassy-green, with a narrow yellow stripe on each side; sides yellow, ...
Bright brassy-green ; head yellow in front; third article of the antennae ..."
4. Report of Progress for by Geological Survey of Canada (1879)
"Several rapids and chutes over ledges of gneiss underlying the clay, occur in
the first thirteen miles below brassy Hill. The last one, at the end of the ..."
5. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1892)
"Scutellum brassy-yellow tomentose, bristles black. Abdomen black tomentose.
a cross-band of white and pale yellow tomentum on bases of second and fourth ..."
6. Entomologia Edinensis: Or A Description and History of the Insects Found in by James Wilson, James Duncan (1834)
"Very thickly punctured and finely pubescent, of a brassy-green or violaceous colour
... Oblong-ovate, black, glossed with brassy, deeply pune- ..."
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