a. | 1. | Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass. |
2. | Impudent; impudently bold. | |
n. | 1. | (Golf) A wooden club soled with brass. |
Adj. | 1. | brassy - resembling the sound of a brass instrument Synonyms: brasslike |
2. | brassy - tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" | |
3. | brassy - 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 |