brown (English, verb)
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹaʊn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Etymology: From Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
Cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún
Definitions: examples: text: Fry the onions until they brown.
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text: The chicken was browning nicely, the skin beginning to crisp and take on the toasty tones of oiled wood.
ref: 2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 269:
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text: Don't microwave your milk too long
It browns and bubbles over
ref: 2019, Patricia Taxxon, “Cold Water”, in Doraemon:
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synonyms: word: embrown
tags: literary
poetic
word: brownify
glosses: To become brown.
tags: intransitive
examples: text: Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]
ref: 1887, Indian Cookery "Local" for Young Housekeepers: Second Edition, page 67:
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topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To cook something until it becomes brown.
tags: transitive
examples: text: Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
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glosses: To tan.
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: text: A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
ref: 1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad:
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synonyms: word: embrown
tags: literary
poetic
glosses: To make brown or dusky.
tags: transitive
examples: text: It is mixed uniformly with olive oil, and rubbed upon the iron slightly heated, which is afterwards exposed to the air, till the wished-for degree of browning is produced.
ref: 1860, Andrew Ure, Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, page 463:
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glosses: To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
tags: transitive
examples: text: the browning of America
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topics: demographics
demography
glosses: To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
tags: derogatory
ethnic
intransitive
offensive
slang
slur
transitive
usually
Forms: form: browns
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: browning
tags: participle
present
form: browned
tags: participle
past
form: browned
tags: past
Derived terms: word: anti-brown
word: Arran brown
taxonomic: Muscicapa dauurica
word: Asian brown flycatcher
word: big brown bat
word: Bismarck brown
word: black and brown
word: Boston brown bread
word: brownable
word: brown adipose tissue
word: brown ale
taxonomic: Phaeophyceae spp.
word: brown alga
word: brown ammonia
word: brown anole
word: brown argus
word: brown as a berry
word: brownback
word: brown bag
word: brown-bag
word: brown-bagger
word: brown bagging
word: brown bag test
word: brown bar
word: brown bastard
word: brown beaksedge
word: brown bean
word: brown bear
word: brown bent
taxonomic: Agrostis canina
word: brown bentgrass
word: Brown Bess
word: Brown Betty
word: brown-bill
word: brownbill
word: brown-billed scythebill
word: brown bits
word: brown bomber
word: brown bottle flu
word: brown box
word: brown box crab
word: brown bread
word: brown-brown
word: brown bullhead
word: brown butter
word: brown cheese
word: brown cloud
taxonomic: Trifolium badium
word: brown clover
word: brown coal
word: Browncoat
word: brown coati
word: brown crab
word: brown creeper
word: brown dwarf
word: brown earth
word: browned off
word: brown envelope journalism
word: brown envelope syndrome
word: brownette
word: browneye
word: brown eye
word: brown-eyed
word: brown-eyed soul
word: brown-eyed Susan
word: brownface
word: brown falcon
word: brown fat
word: brownfield
word: Brown George
word: brown goods
word: brown goshawk
word: brown-haired
word: brown hairstreak
taxonomic: Lepus europaeus
word: brown hare
word: brown hawk
word: brownhead
word: brown heroin
word: brown holland
word: brown honeyeater
word: brown hydrogen
word: brown hyena
word: brownie
word: brownification
word: brown inca
word: brownish
word: brown job
word: brown joke
word: brown jolly
word: brown king crab
word: brown kingfisher
word: brown lacewing
word: brown leaf
word: brown leaf spot
word: brown lung
word: brownly
word: brown marmorated stink bug
word: brown mint
word: brown mustard
word: brownness
word: brownnose
word: brown-nose
word: brown-noser
word: brown noser
word: brown note
word: brown ocean effect
word: brown onion
word: brown oriole
word: brown out
word: brownout
word: brown-out
word: brown owl
word: brown palm civet
word: brown paper
word: brown paper bag party
word: brown paper bag test
word: brown patch
word: brown pelican
word: brown pound
word: brown powder
word: brown power
word: brown priest
word: brownprint
word: brown rat
word: brown recluse
word: brown recluse spider
word: brown rice
word: brown rock chat
word: brown rosin paper
word: brown rot
word: brown-rumped minivet
word: brown sauce
word: brown seaweed
word: brown shark
word: Brown Shirt
word: brown shirt
word: Brownshirt
word: brown shoe
word: brown shower
word: brown shrike
word: brown shrimp
word: brownskin
word: brown snake
word: brown spar
word: brown spot
word: brown stew
word: brown stew chicken
word: brown sticker
word: brownstone
word: brown study
word: brown sugar
word: Brown Swiss
word: brown-tailed rock chat
word: brown-tail moth
taxonomic: Zebrasoma scopas
word: brown tang
word: brown teal
word: brown thrasher
word: brown thumb
word: brown tinamou
word: browntop
word: brown trout
word: brown up
word: brownware
word: brownwash
word: brown water
word: brown-water navy
word: brown Windsor soup
word: brown woolly monkey
word: brownwort
word: browny
taxonomic: Orsotriaena spp.
word: bush brown
word: Cappagh brown
word: Cappah brown
word: Cassel brown
word: chocolate-brown
word: code brown
word: Colorado brown stain
word: common brown
taxonomic: Peziza phyllogena
word: common brown cup
word: common brown earwig
word: De Kay's brown snake
word: do it brown
word: do it up brown
word: do someone brown
word: done brown
word: embrown
word: golden brown
word: great brown kingfisher
word: hair-brown
word: hash brown
word: hash-brown
word: hashed brown
word: hash browns
word: hashbrowns
word: hash-browns
word: hashed browns
word: Himalayan brown bear
word: Hobart brown
word: hot brown
word: indigo brown
word: Kassel brown
taxonomic: Pseudechis australis
word: king brown
word: King Island brown thornbill
word: little brown dove
word: little brown fucking machine
word: little brown job
word: little brown jug
word: Mars brown
taxonomic: Maniola jurtina
word: meadow brown
word: Mexican brown
word: mono-brown
word: mousy brown
word: mummy brown
word: Natal brown
word: nigger-brown
word: nonbrown
word: northern brown argus
word: northern brown bandicoot
word: North Island brown kiwi
word: nut-brown
word: nut-brown butter
word: Okarito brown kiwi
word: overbrown
word: plain brown wrapper
word: prebrowned
word: Pullman brown
word: red-brown
word: reddish-brown
word: red-green-brown alliance
word: saddle brown
word: Sanford's brown
word: Sanford's brown lemur
word: shit-brown
word: small brown crow
word: southern brown bandicoot
word: Spanish brown
taxonomic: Bicyclus xeneas
word: stately bush brown
word: sub-brown dwarf
word: Sudan brown
word: sunbrowned
word: take someone to brown town
word: the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
word: toffee-brown
taxonomic: Lethe spp.
word: tree brown
word: unbrown
word: unbrowned
word: Vandyke brown
taxonomic: Lasiommata megera
word: wall brown
taxonomic: Lethe spp.
word: wood brown
Related terms: word: brunet
word: burnet
word: golding
word: red
word: orange
word: yellow
word: green
alt: incl. indigo; cyan, teal, turquoise
word: blue
word: purple
word: violet
english: including magenta
word: pink
word: white
word: gray
word: grey
word: black