brassen

present singular third person brassens · participle present brassening · participle past brassened · past brassened

1. ambitransitiveTo make like or become like brass, particularly in fortitude or colour

   'You seem disappointed, was I supposed to brassen up. I thought this was other biz, not a shag call.'

   2011, Ken Bruen, Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice

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   He could possibly understand a man wishing to blacken the gray as he aged, it was only natural—to a point, and then it was not. But to brassen one's hair like a homosexual?

   2004, Tom Morrisey, Deep Blue, page 290