Usually means: Bold, loud, and somewhat harsh.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. brassy: Merriam-Webster
  2. brassy, brassy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brassy, brassy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brassy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brassy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brassy, brassy: Wordnik
  7. brassy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. brassy: Wiktionary
  9. brassy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brassy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Brassy, brassy: Dictionary.com
  12. brassy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Brassy (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Brassy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. brassy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. brassy: Rhymezone
  17. Brassy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. brassy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. brassy: FreeDictionary.org
  20. brassy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. brassy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. brassy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  23. brassy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brassy: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brassy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brassy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brassy: A Word A Day

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. brassy, brassy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. brassy: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Brassy: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. brassy: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brassy: Beauty & Health Glossary

(Note: See brassier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Resembling brass.
adjective:  (informal) Impudent; impudently bold.
adjective:  Unfeeling; pitiless.
adjective:  Harsh in tone.
noun:  Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.
noun:  Alternative form of brassie (“type of golf club”) [(golf, dated) A wooden-headed golf club with a brass base plate, similar to a modern two wood.]

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