brazen

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. (archaic) Made of brass.
2. (figuratively) Brass-like in appearance or character; bright, ruddy, hard.
3. Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbals or brass instruments.
4. (archaic) Extremely strong; impenetrable; resolute.
5. Shameless or impudent; shocking or audacious; brash.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To turn a brass color.
2. (transitive) Generally followed by out or through: to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, risk, etc.

Conceptos

descarado

desvergonzado

sinverguenza

caradura

de latón

desahogado

descompuesto

zafado

impertinente

Sinónimos

shameless

impudent

audacious

barefaced

insolent

bold

brazen-faced

unashamed

made of brass

impertinent

brassy

bald-faced

daring

brass

bodacious

saucy

bold-faced

brash

bronzy

careless

cheeky

fearless

indecent

nosy

outrageous

presumptuous

sassy

arrogant

thick-skinned

unclean

copper

interfering

irreverent

nosiness

unflinching

unhumble

perky

pert

unscrupulous

reckless

rude

uppish

bluff

conceit

shocking

temerity

baldfaced

unabashed

defiant

bronze

Traducciones

unverschämt

sfacciato

impudent

éhonté

schamlos

hardi

effronté

unverfroren

impudente

ορειχάλκινος

frech

μπρούντζινος

αυθάδης

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈbɹeɪzən/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: brasen

Heredado de inglés antiguo: bræsen

In summary

From Middle English brasen, from Old English bræsen (“brazen, of brass”); equivalent to brass + -en (compare golden, wooden, etc.).
The word originally meant “of brass”; the figurative verb sense (as in brazen it out (“face impudently”)) dates from the 1550s (perhaps evoking the sense “face like brass, unmoving and not showing shame”), and the adjective sense “impudent” from the 1570s. Compare brass neck, bold as brass.