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BRASSER, n. A blushing face from embarrassment.Edb. 1991 Gordon Legge In Between Talking about the Football 40:
'What a brasser that wife got when her lassie appeared. You should've seen her. ...'wm.Sc. 1998 Alan Warner The Sopranos (1999) 68:
Fionnula had taken a brasser and she turned to look out the window.
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