Hypertext Webster Gateway: "brassy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Brassy \Brass"y\, n. [Written also {brassie} and {brassey}.]
(Golf)
A wooden club soled with brass.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Brassy \Brass"y\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance,
or hardness, of brass.
2. Impudent; impudently bold. [Colloq.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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