Possessing brains; quick-witted.
1874. Men here are for the most part wiry, sinewy, nervous, and brainy.—‘Sex and Education,’ p. 25. (N.E.D.)
1877. A fresh, clean, brainy, courageous man.—Albany Journal, March (Bartlett).
1881. The great brainy man of the cabinet.—Washington Republican, Sept. 13.
1888. We are a brainy people. Brainy men succeed in life.—Missouri Republican, Feb. 12 (Farmer).
1904. The brainy men o’ the future may find a way to probe a man’s heart an’ measure his reformation an’ regret, as they do gold to-day.—W. N. Harben, ‘The Georgians,’ p. 11.
