brassy vs frou-frou

brassy

• Unfeeling; pitiless. 

• Impudent; impudently bold. 

• Harsh in tone. 

• Resembling brass. 

• Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia. 

frou-frou

• Unimportant, silly, useless. 

• Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses. 

• Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

• A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress. 

• To move with the sound of rustling dresses.