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brassy

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Adjective
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brass=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

brassya. 
  •  Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Impudent; impudently bold.  [1913 Webster]
brassyn. 
     A wooden club soled with brass.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

brassy, adj. (brassier, brassiest)
1 impudent.
2 pretentious, showy.
3 loud and blaring.
4 of or like brass.

Derivative
brassily adv. brassiness n.
brassy, brat n. usu. derog. a child, esp. an ill-behaved one.

Derivative
bratty adj.
Etymology
perh. abbr. of Sc. bratchart hound, or f. brat rough garment

THESAURUS

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

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