Associations to the word «Brassier»
Adverb
Wiktionary
BRASSY, adjective. Resembling brass.
BRASSY, adjective. (informal) Impudent; impudently bold.
BRASSY, noun. Same as brassie
Dictionary definition
BRASSY, adjective. Resembling the sound of a brass instrument.
BRASSY, 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, 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.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.