brassy.
Resembling brass.
Meaning & usage
Resembling brass.
The cup had a brassy color.
Impudent; impudently bold.
Don’t get brassy with me, young lady!
Unfeeling; pitiless.
Harsh in tone.
an organ stop with a brassy tone
Where this word comes from
From brass + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning “having the quality of”).
Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.
Where this word comes from
Uncertain.
Alternative form of brassie (“type of golf club”).
Where this word comes from
From brass + -y (suffix forming diminutive nouns).
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