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browny

browny adjective: somewhat brown; having a brownish tinge.

Adjective

browny (comparative more browny, superlative most browny)

  1. Somewhat brown; having a brownish tinge.
    • His browny locks did hang in crooked curles.1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint
    • As they got nearer to the browny fence they saw that it was a great hedge about eight feet high, made of piled-up thorn bushes.1906, E. Nesbit, The Story of the Amulet

Proper noun capitalized: Browny

Browny

  1. A nickname of the surname Brown.

Forms of browny

comparativemore browny
superlativemost browny

Origin of browny

From brown + -y.

From Brown + -y.

Words formed from browny

Questions about browny

What does browny mean?
Browny means somewhat brown; having a brownish tinge.
What part of speech is browny?
Browny can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near browny in the dictionary

  1. brownwashes
  2. brownwashing
  3. Brownwood
  4. brownwort
  5. brownworts
  6. browny
  7. browpexies
  8. browpexy
  9. browplasties
  10. browplasty
  11. browridge

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