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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Brassy \Brass"y\, n. [Written also {brassie} and {brassey}.] (Golf) A wooden club soled with brass. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Brassy \Brass"y\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass. 2. Impudent; impudently bold. [Colloq.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: brassy adj 1: resembling the sound of a brass instrument [syn: {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: {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; "bold-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}, {bold-faced}, {brazen}, {brazen-faced}, {insolent}]
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