Brassy

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or having any of the qualities of brass; brazen: chiefly used in a derogatory sense: as, a brassy taste; the coloring is brassy.
  • Brazen-faced; impudent.
  • noun. A Scotch name of the bib, a gadoid fish.
  • noun. A wooden golf-club shod with brass on the sole.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
  • adjective. Impudent; impudently bold.
  • noun. A wooden club soled with brass.
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  • adjective. Resembling brass.
  • adjective. Impudent; impudently bold.
  • noun. Same as brassie
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  • adjective. resembling the sound of a brass instrument
  • adjective. tastelessly showy
  • adjective. unrestrained by convention or propriety
    • Word Usage
    ""Well," said Thomas, as he reached his ball, "that's not what I call a brassy lie.""
    Equivalent
    tasteless  unashamed  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cassie  Lassie  Malagasy  Massey  Tallahassee  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ashen  blue-black  bubbly  coppery  dirge-like  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Titian  adust  affront  arrant  arrogant  
    variant
    brassier  brassiest  
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