a. [f. BRAIN sb. + -Y1.] That has plenty of brains; acute, clever. (Chiefly in U.S.)
1867. Folsom Wkly. Telegraph, 21 Sept., 1/2. Few widowers in the country had been the subject of more varied and thorough discussion.—Courtly and brainy, an able lawyer, an astute politician, [etc.].
1874. Julia Ward Home, in Sex & Educ., 25. Men here are for the most part wiry, sinewy, nervous, and brainy.
1883. D. H. Wheeler, By-Ways of Lit., iii. 42. The culture [in monasteries] was of a more brainy sort.
