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▪ I. brassy, a.|ˈbrɑːsɪ, -æ-|
Also 6 brassie, -ye.
[f. brass n. + -y1.]
1. Consisting of or covered with brass.
1583Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 32 Thee stayrs brassye grises stately presented. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie ii. vi. 200 That dreamed of Imagery, Whose head was gold, brest siluer, brassie thigh. 1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur 328 On the left the brassy legions of Caesar.
2. Of the nature or appearance of brass, in colour, sound, taste, etc.
1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 426 [It] left a brassy taste in my mouth for a whole day. 1803Phil. Trans. XCIII. 68 Of a pale brassy colour. 1847Motherwell Spirits of Light Hark, to their trumpets' brassy blare. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago I. 65 The sky..is brassy green.
3. fig. with many varieties of sense.
a. Hard as brass, pitiless, unfeeling.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. iv. i. 31 And plucke commiseration of his state From brassie bosomes.
b. Having a ‘face of brass’, unblushing, impudently confident, or forward.
1576Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 156 To make them blush..were they never so brassie and impudent. 1690Def. Dr. Walker 2 A brassy Impudence. 1792J. Wolcott (P. Pindar) Churchw., Betty was too brassy, We never keep a sarvant that is saucy. 1846D. Jerrold Chron. Clovernook Wks. IV. 415 A brassy confidence in his face.
c. Of brass, as opposed to ‘golden’; debased yet pretentious.
1586J. Ferne Lacies Nobilitie 2 This present age, which is growne so harde and brassye, for the golden dayes are long sithence ouer-passed. 1842Tennyson Amphion ix, In such a brassy age I could not move a thistle.
d. Harsh and feelingless in tone, like a brass instrument; having a strident artificial tone.
1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. 74 That hard, brassy, over-stretched style. 1870Daily News 26 July 5 Its brassy clangour of quickly-recurring rhymes. 1884J. A. Symonds Shakspere's Predecessors 508 Aretino..proved his originality by creating a new manner, brassy and meretricious.
e. In medical use, describing a cough.
1880Barwell Aneurism 91 Severe brassy cough. 1895Oracle Encycl. II. 221/2 The patient..awakens..with a peculiar cough, called by physicians ‘brassy’.
▪ II. ˈbrassy, n.1 Sc.
Also bressie.
[Cf. brasse.]
A fish, ‘the ancient Wrasse’ (Jamieson).
1710Sibbald Fife (1803) 128 Turdus vulgatissimus Willoughboei: I take it to be the same our fishers call a Bressie.
▪ III. brassy, n.2 Golf.|ˈbræsɪ|
Also brassey, brassie.
[f. brass n. + -y6.]
A wooden club shod with brass.
1888Daily News 2 July 5/1 The golfer will hunt for his ‘brassey’ in vain. 1889W. T. Linskill Golf iii. 20 A brassey is very similar to a wooden niblick, but..the sole of the head is shod with a plate of brass as a protection to the wood and bone. 1890[see cleek n. 1 b]. 1929Wodehouse Mr. Mulliner Speaking vi. 203 John Gooch, smiting vigorously with his brassie.
b. ellipt. for brassy shot.
1906Daily Chron. 22 May 9/5 He sliced his drive badly, but played a perfect brassey to within four yards of the pin. 1909Ibid. 22 Apr. 8/4 His tee shots and brassies being of fine length and direction.
c. attrib., as brassy player, brassy shot, brassy stroke.
1894Westm. Gaz. 21 Dec. 7/2 To the third hole in, he got away a fine tee shot, which he followed by a good brassy stroke to the green. 1897Ibid. 30 Dec. 7/3 Mr. Ramsay Islay..killed a seagull on the wing with a brassey shot. 1904Ibid. 1 Jan. 3/1 He is a good brassy player. |
