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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Made of or decorated with brass.
  2. adj. Resembling brass, as in color.
  3. adj. Music Resembling or characterized by the sound of brass instruments: "The band was now playing some brassy march” ( Robert Penn Warren).
  4. adj. Cheap and showy; flashy.
  5. adj. Informal Brazen; insolent.
  6. n. Variant of brassie.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to or having any of the qualities of brass; brazen: chiefly used in a derogatory sense: as, a brassy taste; the coloring is brassy.
  2. Brazen-faced; impudent.
  3. n. A Scotch name of the bib, a gadoid fish.
  4. n. A wooden golf-club shod with brass on the sole.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Resembling brass.
  2. adj. informal Impudent; impudently bold.
  3. n. Same as brassie

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
  2. adj. colloq. Impudent; impudently bold.
  3. n. (Golf) A wooden club soled with brass.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. resembling the sound of a brass instrument
  2. adj. tastelessly showy
  3. adj. unrestrained by convention or propriety

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