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brown | -ie |

As a noun brown

is a colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

As a adjective brown

is having a brown colour.

As a verb brown

is to become brown.

As a suffix -ie is

variation of -y forming diminutive or affectionate forms of nouns or names.

brown

English

(wikipedia brown)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
    • The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
  • (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
  • Black tar heroin.
  • (sometimes capitalised) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance

    • Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Having a brown colour.
  • (obsolete) Gloomy.

    • Antonyms

    * (having brown as its colour) nonbrown

    Descendants

    * American Sign Language:

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To become brown.
    • Fry the onions until they brown .
  • (cooking) To cook something until it becomes brown.
    • Brown the onions in a large frying pan.
  • To tan.
    • Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
  • To make brown or dusky.
  • * Barlow
    • A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
  • To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
    • (Ure)
  • To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
    • the browning of America

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from "brown") * brown adipose tissue * brown ale * brown bastard * brown bear * Brown Bess * Brown Betty * brown-bill * brown bread * brown coal * brown dwarf * brown earth * brown falcon * brown fat * brown goods * brown hawk * brown lacewing * brown lung * brown mustard * brown note * brown paper * brown patch * brown rat * brown rice * brown rot * brown sauce * Brown Shirt * brown sugar * Brown Swiss * brown thrasher * brown trout * brown-bag * brown-bagger * browned off * brownfield * brownie * Brownie point * brownish * brownnose * brownout * brownprint * brownstone * embrown * golden brown * hash browns * meadow brown * nut-borwn * Vandyke brown

    Related terms

    * brunet * burnet

    See also

    * golding * 1000 English basic words ----

    -ie

    English

    Suffix

    (en-suffix)
  • * 1869 , Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl :
    • "Polly, I wish you 'd let me call you Marie," said Fanny one day, as they were shopping together.
    "You may call me Mary, if you like; but I won't have any ie put on to my name. I'm Polly at home and I'm fond of being called so; but Marie is Frenchified and silly."
    "I spell my own name with an ie , and so do all the girls."
    "And what a jumble of Netties', '''Nellies''', '''Hatties''', and '''Sallies''' there is. How '' Pollie' would look spelt so!"
    dear ? dearie
    sweet ? sweetie
    Katherine ? Kathie/Cathy
    Bill ? Billy
  • (often, derogatory)
    • bike ? bikie
    surf ? surfie
    town ? townie

    Derived terms

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