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Brassy

//ˈbɹæs.i// adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling brass.

    "The cup had a brassy color."

  2. 2
    Impudent; impudently bold. informal

    "Don’t get brassy with me, young lady!"

  3. 3
    Unfeeling; pitiless.
  4. 4
    Harsh in tone.

    "an organ stop with a brassy tone"

Adjective
  1. 1
    unrestrained by convention or propriety wordnet
  2. 2
    tastelessly showy wordnet
  3. 3
    resembling the sound of a brass instrument wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of brassie (“type of golf club”). alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From brass + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning “having the quality of”).

Etymology 2

From brass + -y (suffix forming diminutive nouns).

Etymology 3

Uncertain.

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