brassen
verbEtymology From brass + -en.
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Ambitransitive To make like or become like brass, particularly in fortitude or colour
- 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:
- '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: