Brassy

Definition: Brassy

Brassy

Adjective

1. Resembling the sound of a brass instrument.

2. Tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments".

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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "brassy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonyms: Brassy

Crosswords: Brassy

This brassy bird has us buffaloed (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Lorenzo Semple Jr.)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Magic Salsa: 125 Naturally Low-Fat Bold and Brassy Sauces to Add Flavor to Any Meal (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• A Brassy Night at the Opera (reference)

• Brassy and Sassy (reference)

• Cool Brassy Night at the North Pole (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i tunxhtë (brazen), i pacipë (arrogant, audacious, barefaced, brazen, brazen faced, bumptious, cheeky, contumelious, coxy, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, perky, pert, saucy, shameless, unblushing). (various references)

Arabic 

‏البراسية عصا غولف نحاسية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

месингов, металичен, безсрамен (barefaced, brazen, graceless, immodest, impudent, outre, shameless, unabashed, unashamed, unscrupulous). (various references)

Chinese 

狂妄 (egotistical; arrogant; brassy). (various references)

Czech

vulgární (rank, rough, scurrilous, vulgar), nestoudný (barefaced, brazen faced, immodest, impertinent, impudent, nasty, shameless), mosazný (brass, brazen). (various references)

Danish

bedejordloppe (beet flea beetle, brassy flea beetle, brassy-toothed flea beetle, hop flea beetle, mangle flea beetle, mangold flea beetle, tooth-legged flea beetle). (various references)

Dutch

groene aardvlo (beet flea beetle, brassy flea beetle, brassy-toothed flea beetle, hop flea beetle, mangle flea beetle, mangold flea beetle, tooth-legged flea beetle). (various references)

Farsi 

فرومایه (Abject, Base, Currish, Ignoble, Knave, Low, Vile), پررو (Barefaced, Cheeky, Fresh, Immodest, Impudent, Nervy, Pert, Presuming), نابخرد (Unreasonable), قلب (Anagram, Counterfeit, Heart, Midst, Spurious), بی تدبیر (Imprudent), بی شرم (Barefaced, Brash, Brazen, Immodest, Unabashed), برنگ برنج , برنجین , برنج مانند, بدل (Apposition, False, Spurious, Substitute). (various references)

Finnish

juurikaskirppa (beet flea beetle, brassy flea beetle, brassy-toothed flea beetle, hop flea beetle, mangle flea beetle, mangold flea beetle, tooth-legged flea beetle). (various references)

French

cuivré (brazen). (various references)

German

messingartig (brassily). (various references)

Greek 

ηχηρόσ (clangourous, orotund, resonant, resounding, sonant, soniferous, sonorous), αναιδήσ (audacious, barefaced, cheeky, cocky, fresh, immodest, impudence, impudent, saucy, squirt), ορειχάλκινοσ (brazen). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתכתי (brazen, metallic, tinny), חצוף (bold, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, pert, rude), נחושתי (cupreous). (various references)

Hungarian

szemtelen (arrogant, audacious, be insolent, brash, brazen, cheeky, contemptuous, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, leer, malapert, naughty, perky, pert, presumptuous, sassy, saucy, shameless, unblushing), rezes (brazen, copper, coppery), rézből való (brazen, copper). (various references)

Indonesian

tak tahu malu (shameless), seperti alat musik tiup. (various references)

Italian

d'ottone. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

黄道色 (brassy yellow). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

こうどうしょく (brassy yellow). (various references)

Manx

prashagh (brazen), neufaitagh (brazen, undaunted). (various references)

Pig Latin

assybray.(various references)

Romanian

neruşinat (barefaced, bold, brazen faced, cheeky, frontless, graceless, impudent, indecent, nervy, outrageous, ribald, saucy, shameless, unscrupulous), de alamã (brass, brazen, latten), alãmiu. (various references)

Russian 

наглый (assured, barefaced, bold, brazen, brazenfaced, brazen-faced, flip, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, perky, saucy, snippy, unashamed, unblushing, uppish), медный (brazen, copper, cupreous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razmetljiv (braggart, bragging, jaunty, ostentatious, rodomontade, showy, sporty, swank, thrasonical), mesingani. (various references)

Spanish

de latón (brazen). (various references)

Swedish

mässings, fräck (audacious, brash, brazen, cheeky, cool, daring, fresh, impertinent, impudent, indecent, insolent, lippy, nervy, rude, saucy, wicked). (various references)

Turkish

yüzsüz (bare faced, barefaced, bold-faced, brash, brazenfaced, cheeky, conscience-proof, fresh, gay, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard-nosed, Hardy, impudent, nervy, pushful, pushing, ribald, saucy, shameless, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing), sırnaşık (brash, importunate, intrusive, obtrusive, pushful, pushing, sassy, saucy, smarmy), pirinç gibi, küstah (arrogant, assuming, audacious, bold, bold-faced, brash, cheeky, chesty, cool, flip, flippant, fresh, ill mannered, impertinent, impudent, insolent, insulting, malapert, nervy, overbearing, presuming, presumptuous, stroppy, too familiar, unabashed, wise), cırtlak (glaring, screaming, screeching, shrill), arsız (bare faced, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, calm, cheeky, daft, flip, flippant, fresh, hard bitten, Hardy, impudent, malapert, perky, pert, Randy, sassy, shameless, unabashed, unblushing, vigorous). (various references)

Ukrainian

металічний (metallic, tinny), латунний (brass). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trơ tráo; hỗn xược (brassie). (various references)

Misspellings

"Brassy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Barassa, Barsi, bassy, Baussy, bracksy, brashs, brassia, brassic, brassie, Brazzi, bresy, Brisby, brosys, Brussie, Rassy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: abyss, bassy, brass, brays.

-2 letters: abys, arbs, bars, bass, bays, bras, bray, rays, ryas, sabs, says.

-3 letters: abs, aby, arb, ars, ass, ays, bar, bas, bay, bra, bys, ras, ray, rya, sab, say, yar.

-4 letters: ab, ar, as, ay, ba, by, ya.

+2 letters: brassily, passerby, rosebays.

+3 letters: boyarisms, passersby, sybarites.

+4 letters: abstrusely, abstrusity, bystanders, reassembly, scabrously, subsidiary, sybaritism.

+5 letters: babysitters, brainlessly, cyberspaces, presbyopias, storyboards, subtreasury, sybaritisms, syllabaries.