From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Brassy \Brass"y\, n. [Written also {brassie} and {brassey}.]
(Golf)
A wooden club soled with brass.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
brassy
adj 1: resembling the sound of a brass instrument [syn:
{brassy}, {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:
{brassy}, {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;
"bald-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}, {bald-faced},
{brassy}, {brazen}, {brazen-faced}, {insolent}]
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