adj. (common).—Impudent; impertinent; shameless: see BRASS, sense 1.
1570. W. LAMBARDE, A Perambulation of Kent (1826), 156. To make them blush … were they never so BRASSIE and impudent.
1661. MIDDLETON, The Mayor of Quinborough, iii. 1.
| There’s no gallant | |
| So BRASSY-impudent durst undertake | |
| The words that shall belong to’t. |
1738–1819. WOLCOT (‘Peter Pindar’), 73, 1830.
| No, Mister Gattle—Betty was too BRASSY— | |
| We never keep a servant that is saucy. |
1862. E. WOOD, The Channings, II. xii. ‘I asked him to leave his name, sir, and he said Mr. Rowland Yorke knew his name quite well enough, without having it left for him.’ ‘As BRASSY as that, was he! I wish to goodness it was the fashion to have a cistern in your house-roofs!’
