BRASSY

audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent

(adjective) 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

brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy

(adjective) tastelessly showy; “a flash car”; “a flashy ring”; “garish colors”; “a gaudy costume”; “loud sport shirts”; “a meretricious yet stylish book”; “tawdry ornaments”

brassy, brasslike

(adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Adjective

brassy (comparative brassier, superlative brassiest)

Resembling brass.

(informal) Impudent; impudently bold.

Unfeeling; pitiless.

Harsh in tone.

Etymology 2

Noun

brassy (plural brassies)

Alternative form of brassie (“type of golf club”)

Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.

Source: Wiktionary

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Brass"y, a.

1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.

2. Impudent; impudently bold. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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