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brownskin

brownskin noun: a person with brown-colored skin.

Noun

brownskin (plural brownskins)

  1. A person with brown-colored skin.
    • Nell Dodson Russell, writing in the Spokesman, cast doubt on whether private employers would even follow the new ordinance: " […] This business of spouting brotherhood all over the banquet circuit provides a good smokescreen but the real proof of the pudding is the number of brownskins on the...quoted in 2023, Samuel G. Freedman, Into the Bright Sunshine (page 283)

Forms of brownskin

pluralbrownskins

Origin of brownskin

From brown + skin.

Questions about brownskin

What does brownskin mean?
Brownskin means a person with brown-colored skin.
What part of speech is brownskin?
Brownskin is a noun.
What is the plural of brownskin?
The plural of brownskin is brownskins.

Words near brownskin in the dictionary

  1. Brownsea
  2. brownseed paspalum
  3. brownseed paspalums
  4. brownshirt
  5. brownshirts
  6. brownskin
  7. brownskins
  8. brownsnout spookfish
  9. Brownson
  10. Brownsons
  11. brownspar

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