Brassy vs Fresh - What's the difference?
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Resembling brass.
(informal) Impudent; impudently bold.
Newly produced or obtained.
Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled.
(of plant material) Still green and not dried.
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Refreshing or cool.
(of water) Without salt; not saline.
* (?), The World Encompassed , Nicholas Bourne (publisher, 1628),
* 1820 , William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions , Archibald Constable & Co.,
* 2009 , Adele Pillitteri, Maternal and Child Health Nursing , Sixth Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN 9781582559995,
Rested; not tired or fatigued.
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In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
youthful; florid
* Shakespeare
A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
* 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (Nebraska, 1987), page 21:
A stream or spring of fresh water.
* Shakespeare
The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.
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Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.
Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.
Brassy is a related term of fresh.
As adjectives the difference between brassy and fresh
is that brassy is resembling brass while fresh is newly produced or obtained or fresh can be rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.As nouns the difference between brassy and fresh
is that brassy is same as brassie while fresh is a rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.brassy
English
Adjective
(er)- The cup had a brassy color.
- Don't get brassy with me, young lady!
fresh
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) fresch, fersch, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.
- I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.
- After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.
- I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.
- a glass of fresh milk
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- What a nice fresh breeze.
- After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.
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- There we made our ?hip fa?t with foure ropes, in ?mooth water, and the fre?h water ranne downe out of the hill into the ?ea,
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- When dissolved, it produces water sometimes perfectly fresh , and sometimes saltish;
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- Additional changes that occur when water enters the lungs depend on whether the water is fresh or salt.
- Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.
- a fresh hand on a ship
- these fresh nymphs
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* afresh * fresh air * fresh as a daisy * fresh bean * fresh country eggs * fresh breeze * fresh fish * fresh food * fresh frozen plasma * fresh gale * fresh ground/fresh-ground * fresh legs * fresh-new * fresh off the boat * fresh out of * fresh start * fresh water/freshwater * freshen * fresher * freshly * freshman * freshment * freshness * hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire * refresh * refreshingNoun
(freshes)- They went on very well with their work until it was nigh done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh , and away went their mill, shot, lock, and barrel.
- He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him / Where the quick freshes are.
Etymology 2
1848, US slang, probably from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(er)- No one liked his fresh comments.
- Hey, don't get fresh with me!
