brassyn.¹

Forms: Also bressie.

Etymology: Compare brasse n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbrassy.

Scottish.

A fish, ‘the ancient Wrasse’ (Jamieson).

ΚΠ

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

Brit.

/ˈbrɑːsi/,

/ˈbrasi/, U.S.

/ˈbræsi/

Forms: Also brassey, brassie.

Etymology: < brass n. + -y suffix⁶.

Golf.

1. A wooden club shod with brass.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

brassyadj.

Brit.

/ˈbrɑːsi/,

/ˈbrasi/, U.S.

/ˈbræsi/

Forms: Also 1500s brassie, brassye.

Etymology: < brass n. + -y suffix¹.

1. Consisting of or covered with brass.

ΘΚΠ

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. E7^v 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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

n.¹1710

n.²1888

adj.1582

单词	brassy
释义	brassyn.¹ Forms: Also bressie. Etymology: Compare brasse n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbrassy. Scottish. A fish, ‘the ancient Wrasse’ (Jamieson). ΚΠ 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 Brit. /ˈbrɑːsi/, /ˈbrasi/, U.S. /ˈbræsi/ Forms: Also brassey, brassie. Etymology: < brass n. + -y suffix⁶. Golf. 1. A wooden club shod with brass. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). brassyadj. Brit. /ˈbrɑːsi/, /ˈbrasi/, U.S. /ˈbræsi/ Forms: Also 1500s brassie, brassye. Etymology: < brass n. + -y suffix¹. 1. Consisting of or covered with brass. ΘΚΠ 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. E7^v 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹1710n.²1888adj.1582
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brassyn.1

brassyn.2

Compounds

brassyadj.

brassyn.¹

brassyn.²