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browed

[broud]

adjective

having a brow of a specified kind (usually used in combination): a shaggy-browed brute.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English; see brow, -ed³

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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