Brownest vs Browniest - What's the difference?
brownest | browniest |
As adjectives the difference between brownest and browniest is that brownest is ( brown) while browniest is ( browny).
brownest English
Adjective
(head)
(brown)
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.
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(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
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browniest English
Adjective
(head)
(browny)
Anagrams
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browny English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Somewhat brown; having a brownish tinge.
* {{quote-book
, year=2003
, author=Nora Roberts
, title=Key of Knowledge
, chapter=3
, isbn=0515136379
, page=48
, passage=“Pink, browny red,” he repeated, grinning.}}
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