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noun
1.
a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
2.
a person whose skin has a dusky or light-brown pigmentation.
adjective
3.
of the color brown.
4.
(of animals) having skin, fur, hair, or feathers of that color.
5.
sunburned or tanned.
6.
(of persons) having the skin naturally pigmented a brown color.
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Brown out
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
Verb phrase7.
to make or become brown.
8.
to fry, sauté, or scorch slightly in cooking: to brown onions before adding them to the stew. The potatoes browned in the pan.
9.
Idiomsbrown out, to subject to a brownout: The power failure browned out the southern half of the state.
10.
browned off, Slang. angry; fed up.
11.
do it up brown, Informal. to do thoroughly: When they entertain, they really do it up brown.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English brūn; cognate with Dutch bruin, German braun, Old Norse brūnn; akin to Lithuanian brúnas brown
before 1000; Middle English; Old English brūn; cognate with Dutch bruin, German braun, Old Norse brūnn; akin to Lithuanian brúnas brown
Related forms
brown·ish, brown·y, adjective
brown·ness, noun
o·ver·brown, verb
un·browned, adjective
well-browned, adjective
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Word Origin & History
brown
O.E. brun "dark, dusky," only developing a definite color sense 13c., from P.Gmc. *brunaz (cf. O.N. brunn, Dan. brun, O.Fris., O.H.G. brun, Du. bruin, Ger. braun), from PIE *bher- (3) "shining, brown" (cf. Lith. beras "brown"), related to *bheros "dark animal" (cf.
EXPAND beaver, bear (n.), and Gk. phrynos "toad," lit. "the brown animal"). The O.E. word also had a sense of "brightness, shining," now preserved only in burnish. The Gmc. word was adopted into Romanic (cf. M.L. brunus, It., Sp. bruno, Fr. brun). Brown-bag (v.) "to bring lunch or liquor in a brown paper bag" is from 1960s. Brown Bess, slang name for old British Army flintlock musket, first recorded 1785.
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Medical Dictionary
Brown (broun), Michael. Born 1941.
American geneticist. He shared a 1985 Nobel Prize for discoveries related to cholesterol metabolism.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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