brassyn.1
Scottish.
A fish, ‘the ancient Wrasse’ (Jamieson).
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1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. iii. 53 Turdus Vulgatissimus Willoughbœi: I take it to be the same our fishers call a Bressie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
brassyn.2
/ˈbrɑːsi/, /ˈbrasi/, U.S. /ˈbræsi/ Golf.
1. A wooden club shod with brass.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club > types of club
play club1685
putting club1690
gentlemen's club1709
putter1783
spoon1790
iron1793
sand-iron1796
whip-club1808
cleek1829
driving putter1833
bunker-iron1857
driver1857
niblick1857
putting iron1857
baffing-spoon1858
mid-spoon1858
short spoon1858
sand-club1873
three-wood1875
long iron1877
driving cleek1881
mashie1881
putting cleek1881
track-iron1883
driving iron1887
lofting-iron1887
baffy1888
brassy1888
bulger1889
lofter1889
lofter1892
jigger1893
driving mashie1894
mid-iron1897
mashie-niblick1907
wood1915
pinsplitter1916
chipper1921
blaster1937
sand-wedge1937
wedge1937
1888 Daily News 2 July 5/1 The golfer will hunt for his ‘brassey’ in vain.
1889 W. 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 H. G. Hutchinson in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iv. 102 It is a stroke..with the brassy, cleek or iron.
1929 P. G. Wodehouse Mr. Mulliner Speaking vi. 203 John Gooch, smiting vigorously with his brassie.
2. Short for brassy shot at Compounds.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > types of shot or stroke
putta1754
like1790
drive1829
tee-shot1850
gobble1857
push shot1865
iron shot1870
push stroke1873
drive-off1884
slice1886
raker1888
foozle1890
hook1890
iron1890
top1890
sclaff1893
brassy shot1894
run1894
chip shot1899
chip1903
pull1903
skimmer1903
draw shot1904
brassy1906
pitch-and-run1908
windcheater1909
air shot1920
chip-in1921
explosion1924
downhiller1925
blast1927
driver1927
shank1927
socket1927
recovery1937
whiff1952
pinsplitter1961
comebacker1965
bump-and-run1981
1906 Daily Chron. 22 May 9/5 He sliced his drive badly, but played a perfect brassey to within four yards of the pin.
1909 Daily Chron. 22 Apr. 8/4 His tee shots and brassies being of fine length and direction.
Compounds
attributive, as brassy player, brassy shot, brassy stroke.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > types of shot or stroke
putta1754
like1790
drive1829
tee-shot1850
gobble1857
push shot1865
iron shot1870
push stroke1873
drive-off1884
slice1886
raker1888
foozle1890
hook1890
iron1890
top1890
sclaff1893
brassy shot1894
run1894
chip shot1899
chip1903
pull1903
skimmer1903
draw shot1904
brassy1906
pitch-and-run1908
windcheater1909
air shot1920
chip-in1921
explosion1924
downhiller1925
blast1927
driver1927
shank1927
socket1927
recovery1937
whiff1952
pinsplitter1961
comebacker1965
bump-and-run1981
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > player > types of
outgoera1382
putter1842
driver1847
approacher1887
brassy player1894
long-handicapper1899
penalty-carrier1908
socketer1912
pinsplitter1916
chipper1923
four-baller1927
hacker1934
shotmaker1974
low-ball hitter1979
1894 Westm. 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.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 30 Dec. 7/3 Mr. Ramsay Islay..killed a seagull on the wing with a brassey shot.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 1 Jan. 3/1 He is a good brassy player.
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brassyadj.
/ˈbrɑːsi/, /ˈbrasi/, U.S. /ˈbræsi/ 1. Consisting of or covered with brass.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [adjective] > brass
brazena1000
brasseda1300
brassy1582
brazed1582
brassish1774
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 13 Thee stayrs brassye grises stately presented.
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vi. sig. E7v That dreamed of Imagerie, Whose head was gold, brest siluer, brassie thigh.
1880 L. 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.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > unpalatable
unsweetc1440
boisterous1483
untasty1566
untoothsome1576
twice sod1601
coarse1607
irrelishable1608
asper1626
insuave1657
untoward1662
physicala1665
asperous1670
unpalatable1682
woolly1687
inelegant1708
smoked1761
impalatable1782
brassy1789
soddena1800
metallic1800
inky1805
unsweetened1817
weedy1851
tinny1873
tangy1875
raw1881
unappetizing1884
twangy1887
stavy1888
toasty1890
soapy1892
stewy1895
gloppy1976
the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > brassy yellow
brazen1596
brassy1789
aeneous1847
brass-coloured1851
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] > harsh and metallic
brazen1596
wiry1609
metallic1821
tin pan1843
brassy1847
panny1869
tinny1877
trebly1970
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 426 [It] left a brassy taste in my mouth for a whole day.
1803 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 68 Of a pale brassy colour.
1847 W. Motherwell Spirits of Light Hark, to their trumpets' brassy blare.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. 65 The sky..is brassy green.
3. figurative with many varieties of sense.
a. Hard as brass, pitiless, unfeeling.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > hard-heartedness > [adjective]
hard hearteOE
hateleOE
hard-heartedc1225
cruel1297
dure1412
flinty1536
heartless1556
flint-hearted1560
stone-hearted?1569
stony-hearted1569
iron-hearted1570
steel-hearted1571
unbowelled1592
blunt1594
flintful1596
flint-heart1596
brassy1600
unfeeling1600
cold-blooded1602
cold-hearteda1616
flinty-hearted1629
callous1647
unsympathizing1735
cool-hearted1748
pebble-hearted1816
unsympathetic1823
cold1849
the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adjective]
ruthlessc1330
unpiteousa1393
pitilessa1450
unpitifulc1449
unbowelled1592
unpitying1597
brassy1600
tearless1603
incompassionate1611
heartbound1614
uncompassionatea1616
illachrymable1623
compassionless1625
bowelless1649
incomplexionate1660
uncompassionatinga1711
dispiteous1803
pulseless1820
inhumane1822
impiteous1877
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 30 And pluck comiseration of this states from brassie bosomes.
b. Having a ‘face of brass’, unblushing, impudently confident, or forward.
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] > shameless
shamelessc897
unshamefasta1100
unshamedc1384
unshamefulc1430
unshamousa1500
unshamefaceda1533
unshameless1555
blushless1566
brazen-faced1571
brazen1573
bashless1578
brassy1596
foreheaded16..
foreheadlessa1603
frontless1607
browless1615
basilisco-proof1649
inverecund1657
perfrict1660
brazen-broweda1682
barefaced1704
cool1723
unblushing1736
brassed1742
inerubescent1788
bald-faced1836
bronzed1841
brazen-fronted1842
brazed1884
1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 172 To make them blush,..were they neuer so brassie and impudent.
1690 Def. Dr. Walker 2 A brassy Impudence.
1792 J. Wolcot Churchwarden Betty was too brassy, We never keep a sarvant that is saucy.
1844 D. W. Jerrold Chron. Clovernook in Illuminated Mag. 2 210/2 A brassy confidence in his face.
c. Of brass, as opposed to ‘golden’; debased yet pretentious.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [adjective] > other
brassy1586
unimprovablea1660
1586 J. Ferne Lacies Nobilitie 2 This present age, which is growne so harde and brassye, for the golden dayes are long sithence ouer-passed.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Amphion in Poems (new ed.) II. 168 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.
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1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. ii. 74 That hard, brassy, over-stretched style.
1870 Daily News 26 July 5 Its brassy clangour of quickly-recurring rhymes.
1884 J. 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.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [adjective] > coughing > type of cough
hecking1642
bound1759
short1797
hacky1810
loose1833
retching1856
pecking1865
brassy1880
productive1923
1880 R. Barwell Aneurism 91 Severe brassy cough.
1895 Oracle Encycl. II. 221/2 The patient..awakens..with a peculiar cough, called by physicians ‘brassy’.
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