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brass-necking

brass-necking is the present participle and gerund of brass-neck.

Meaning of brass-neck

Verb

brass-neck (third-person singular simple present brass-necks, present participle brass-necking, simple past and past participle brass-necked)

  1. (Ireland, UK, idiomatic) To behave boldly or shamelessly.

Questions about brass-necking

What is brass-necking the present participle and gerund of?
Brass-necking is the present participle and gerund of brass-neck.

Words near brass-necking in the dictionary

  1. brass-collar Democrat
  2. brass-collar Democrats
  3. brass-knuckled
  4. brass-neck
  5. brass-necked
  6. brass-necking
  7. brass-necks
  8. brassage
  9. brassages
  10. Brassai
  11. brassard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brass-necking (page history and authors); brass-neck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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