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
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.