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brassed, ppl. a.|brɑːst, -æ-|
Also 4 brased, 7 brast.
[f. brass + -ed.]
1. Made of, or overlaid with brass: also fig.
a1300E.E. Psalter cvi[i]. 16 Yhates [that] brased ware, And slottes irened. 1611Chapman Iliad xvii. 425 Both cast Dry solid hides upon their necks, exceeding soundly brast. a1734North Lives I. 363 None so brassed in this kind as demure pretenders who complain of popery and arbitrary power.
2. With off: disgruntled, ‘fed up’, ‘browned off’. slang (orig. Services').
1941J. Sommerfield in Penguin New Writing VIII. 46 I'm brassed off waiting. 1943P. Brennan et al. Spitfires over Malta 12 Very tired and brassed off, we bundled our kit on our shoulders. 1959I. Jefferies 13 Days x. 158, I thought you was brassed off! |