释义 |
brassy adjective (of a woman) ostentatious, cheap but flashy; prostitute-like UK, 1937 A variation of an earlier, obsolete sense (impudent and shameless); probably from BRASSNAILIt’s funny how when you get two skirts going together one of them is always sorta shy and twisted like and the other is always dead brassy. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 40, 1964 A girl was walking past us; eighteen-going-on-fifty, with already a brassy look to her, badly-dyed blonde hair, a tight skirt, a wiggle-wiggle walk. — John Milne, Alive and Kicking, p. 44, 1998 |