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brasher | brasser |

As an adjective brasher

is comparative of brash.

As a noun brasser is

prostitute p. 174, by Benjamin Black. Picador, 2006. ISBN: 978-0-312-42632-3.

brasher

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (brash)

    • brash

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • impetuous or rash
    • (Grose)
  • insensitive or tactless
  • impudent or shameless

    • Noun

  • Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.
  • A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
  • (geology) Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.
    • (Lyell)
  • Broken fragments of ice.
    • (Kane)
    Derived terms
    * water brash * weaning brash

    Etymology 2

    Compare Amer. (bresk), (brusk), fragile, brittle.

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (US, colloquial, dated) brittle, as wood or vegetables
    • (Bartlett)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    brasser

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Cork, slang) prostitute Christine Falls''] p. 174, by (w). Picador, 2006. ISBN: 978-0-312-42632-3.[http://books.google.com/books?id=AmpOAwl3KzcC&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=brasser+dublin&source=bl&ots=LsH9eGgUYJ&sig=A1SVskY6mPTVivHF2nsPAY8FOF4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QjFZT8XHPIGciAKL_YSJCw&ved=0CFoQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=brasser%20dublin&f=false ''Dublin English: evolution and change''] p. 138, by Raymond Hickey. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005. ISBN: 90-272-4895-8.[http://books.google.com/books?id=4YfsEgHLjboC&pg=PA257&lpg=PA257&dq=roddy+doyle++brasser&source=bl&ots=7JRCK1m25a&sig=U7WP6VcpfQis1WbVxl2HX_8leyE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AhpaT8jnIsWpiQL0rbiqCw&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=roddy%20doyle%20%20brasser&f=false ''The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English p. 257, Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor. Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 0-415-25937-1.
  • * 1987 , (Roddy Doyle), (The Commitments) , King Farouk, Dublin:
    • 1. The brassers , yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why?
    2. Yeh know the way they're The Byrds an' Bird is another name for a girl, righ'? —Couldn't we be The Brassers ? It was a great name.
  • * 1991 , (Roddy Doyle), , Secker & Warburg (ISBN: 0-436-20052-X):
    • Don't misunderstand me, compadre, he said. Not just women. All men are brassers as well.
  • * 2005 , Raymond Hickey, Dublin English: evolution and change , John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 138:
    • Among the devices in the word formation morphology of Dublin English the most striking and productive must be the addition of -er'' /-r/ (more rarely ''-ers'') to stems...Examples: ...''brasser 'prostitute, shameless female'...
  • * 2006 , (w), Christine Falls , Picador, page 174:
    • "Oh, and all the brassers' knew Dolly Moran," he said. Quirke nodded. ' Brassers were whores, he assumed, but how? Brass nails, rhyming with tails, or was it something to do with screws?
  • * 2011 , Tony Black, Paying For It , page 167:
    • "Sex workers? Jesus, even the brassers have gone PC," I said to the screen.

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