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English Dictionary: brassy by the DICT Development Group
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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"
    Synonym(s): 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
    Synonym(s): audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
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.]
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