Brassy \Brass"y\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance,
or hardness, of brass.
[1913 Webster]
2. Impudent; impudently bold. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Brassy \Brass"y\, n. [Written also brassie and brassey.]
(Golf)
A wooden club soled with brass.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
brassy
adj 1: resembling the sound of a brass instrument [syn: 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: 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; "bold-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,
bold-faced, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]
[also: brassiest, brassier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
229 Moby Thesaurus words for "brassy":
Titian, adust, affront, arrant, arrogant, auburn, audacious,
aureate, aweless, barefaced, bay, bay-colored, bayard, beard,
bell the cat, bite the bullet, blaring, blatant, blatting,
blustering, boisterous, bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brash,
brass, brave, brawling, brazen, brazen out, brazenfaced, bronze,
bronze-colored, bronzed, bronzy, brownish-red, bumptious, callous,
calloused, case-hardened, castaneous, challenging, cheeky,
chestnut, chestnut-brown, choked, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome,
clanging, clangorous, clattery, coarse, cocky, colorful, confront,
conscienceless, contemptuous, copper, copper-colored, coppery,
cracked, croaking, croaky, crude, cupreous, cuprous, daring,
defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, dissonant,
dry, exhibitionistic, extravagant, face, face the music, face up,
face up to, ferrous, ferruginous, flagrant, flamboyant, flaring,
flashy, flaunting, florid, forward, foxy, fresh, front, garish,
gaudy, gilt, glaring, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden,
gorgeous, grating, greatly daring, gruff, guttural, hard, hardened,
hardhearted, harsh, harsh-sounding, heartless, henna, hoarse,
hubristic, husky, immodest, impertinent, improvident, imprudent,
impudent, incautious, indiscreet, indurated, injudicious, insolent,
inured, iron, ironlike, lead, leaden, liver-brown, liver-colored,
livid-brown, lost to shame, loud, lurid, mafficking, mahogany,
meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, mercurial, mercurous,
meretricious, metallic, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, noiseful,
noisy, notorious, obdurate, obstreperous, obtrusive, overbold,
overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, pert, pewter,
pewtery, quicksilver, rackety, ragged, rash, raucid, raucous,
reddish-brown, regardless of consequences, rip-roaring, roan,
rough, roupy, rowdy, rubiginous, rude, rufous, run the gauntlet,
russet, russety, rust, rust-colored, rusty, saucy, screaming,
seared, sensational, set at defiance, shameless, shrill, silver,
silver-plated, silvery, speak out, speak up, spectacular,
squawking, squawky, stand up to, steel, steely, stertorous,
strangled, strepitant, strepitous, strident, sunburned, swaggering,
tawdry, temerarious, terra-cotta, thick, throaty, tin, tinny,
tumultuous, turbulent, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, unchary,
unembarrassed, unmodest, unwary, uproarious, vociferous, vulgar
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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