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Grammar : Adj
Spell : bras-ee, brah-see
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbræs i, ˈbrɑ si



Definition of brassy

Origin :
  • "impudent," 1570s, from brass + -y (2). Cf. brazen. Sense of "debased and pretentious" is from 1580s, from brass as contrasted with gold; sense of "strident and artificial" is from 1865. Related: Brassily; brassiness.
  • adj vulgar, loud to the senses
Example sentences :
  • The morning of the election the sun heaved up on a brassy sky.
  • Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
  • No, I think not, for Brassy prescribed for himself and I administered the medicine.
  • Extract from : « Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer » by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham
  • Thank you, Brassy, but I do not care to accept your services.
  • Extract from : « Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer » by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham
  • For a moment the bold, brassy look was gone from her face, like a mask that had slipped.
  • Extract from : « Space Prison » by Tom Godwin
  • I shall play my brassy spoon, Purnell, the one with the yellow head.
  • Extract from : « IT and Other Stories » by Gouverneur Morris
  • You will hardly get it away with a brassy; if I were you I should play my niblick.
  • Extract from : « IT and Other Stories » by Gouverneur Morris
  • Flint scowled at the oily, heaving rolls, brassy and dazzling.
  • Extract from : « The Pagan Madonna » by Harold MacGrath
  • Did you hear anything about a party in which Brassy Bangs was interested?
  • Extract from : « The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch » by Edward Stratemeyer
  • Brassy set his teeth and swung the bat with a do-or-dare expression.
  • Extract from : « The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch » by Edward Stratemeyer
  • “We came from the other end of the cave, Brassy,” answered Jack.
  • Extract from : « The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch » by Edward Stratemeyer

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