What is the difference between piffle and brown?
piffle | brown |
Nonsense, foolish talk.
* 1998 , The Economist,
To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.
To waste, to fritter away.
A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
(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
Having a brown colour.
(obsolete) Gloomy.
To become brown.
(cooking) To cook something until it becomes brown.
To tan.
To make brown or dusky.
* Barlow
To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
As nouns the difference between piffle and brown
is that piffle is nonsense, foolish talk while brown is a colour like that of chocolate or coffee.As verbs the difference between piffle and brown
is that piffle is to act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner while brown is to become brown.As an adjective brown is
having a brown colour.As a proper noun Brown is
{{surname|common|from=nicknames}.piffle
English
Noun
(-)Walking: More than gadding about
- The wafflier the piffle , the more sharply Mr Nicholson wields his skewer.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(piffl)Synonyms
* (act or speak in a futile manner) trifle, twaddleReferences
brown
English
(wikipedia brown)Noun
(en noun)- The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
Adjective
(en-adj)Antonyms
* (having brown as its colour) nonbrownDescendants
* American Sign Language:Verb
(en verb)- Fry the onions until they brown .
- Brown the onions in a large frying pan.
- Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
- A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
- (Ure)
- the browning of America
