Impudence vs Brass - What's the difference?
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The quality of being impudent, not showing due respect.
Impudent language, conduct or behavior.
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, chapter=2 (uncountable) A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
(countable, music) A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound.
Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired.
(uncountable) The colour of brass.
(uncountable, used as a singular or plural noun, military) High-ranking officers.
(uncountable, informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude.
(slang, dated) Money.
Inferior composition.
Of the colour of brass.
(informal) Impertinent, bold: brazen.
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* 2000 Aug 18, 2:00 am, David Ryan, strangest bid retraction /illegal lottery NOT , rec.collecting.coins:
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(slang) Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments .
* 1888 , Mr. & Mrs. Bancroft on and off the stage: written by themselves , volume 1, page 90:
* 1900 , The Training of Seamen'', published in ''The Saturday Review , 3 November 1900, volume 90, number 2349, page 556:
* 1908 , The Smith Family'', published in ''Punch'', March 4 1908, bound in ''Punch vol. CXXXIV , page 168:
* 1937 , Blair Niles, A journey in time: Peruvian pageant , page 166:
* Philippine Magazine , volume 6, page 27: (rfdate)
Of inferior composition.
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(uncountable, slang) Brass in pocket; money.
(countable, slang) A brass nail; a prostitute.
(slang) Brass monkey; cold.
Impudence is a related term of brass.
As nouns the difference between impudence and brass
is that impudence is the quality of being impudent, not showing due respect while brass is thymus.impudence
English
Noun
(-)citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence .}}
Synonyms
* cheek * sauciness * See alsobrass
English
(wikipedia brass)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- The brass are not going to like this.
- The brass is not going to like this.
- You've got a lot of brass telling me to do that!
Derived terms
* bold as brass * brass balls * brass band * brassboard * brass hat * brass in pocket * brass instrument * brass knuckles * brass monkey * brass nail * brass neck * brass rat * brass ring * brass section * brass tacks * brassbound * brass-collar * brassed off * brass-rubbing * brassware * brasswind * brassy * calamine brass * high brass * get down to brass tacks * nonbrass * not have a brass farthing * top brassAdjective
(en adjective)- Maybe (probably so), but it's rare someone is brass enough to post a msg for all to see asking for a software key, that the vast majority have paid for in support of the development effort.
- After cornering the dutch auction, the seller was brass enough to send him the whole lot without one.
- Try to keep in mind that not all of his converts are brass enough to challenge the benzo pushers in this group, [...]
- Grindoff, the miller, 'and the leader of a very brass band of most unpopular performers, with a thorough base accompaniment of at least fifty vices,' was played by Miss Saunders.
- I must confess that to me there is something almost pathetic in the sight of a body of bluejackets improving their muscles on the quarter deck by bar-bell exercise, accompanied by a brass — a very brass — band, [...]
- Mr. REGINALD SMITH, KC, the publisher, followed, but he had hardly begun his very interesting remarks when a procession headed by a very brass band entered Smithfield from the west, and approached the platform.
- There are soldiers, policemen, priests and friars, as well as a motley mass of women, children, babies and dogs, and upon special occasions a very brass band.
- The padre in my neighborhood — Santa Ana — was having some kind of a fiesta, and had hired a very brass band. This band kept up its martial airs for hours and hours after I got home, with grand finales — or what each time I hoped would be the grand finale, every five minutes.