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nutbrown

nutbrown is the alternative form of nut-brown.

Meaning of nut-brown

Adjective

nut-brown (comparative more nut-brown, superlative most nut-brown)

  1. Brown as a ripe and dried nut.
    • I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and...Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, (1883), Chapter 1

Forms of nutbrown

comparativemore nutbrown
superlativemost nutbrown

Questions about nutbrown

What is nutbrown the alternative form of?
Nutbrown is the alternative form of nut-brown.

Words near nutbrown in the dictionary

  1. Nutbourne
  2. nutbowl
  3. nutbowls
  4. nutbreaker
  5. nutbreakers
  6. nutbrown
  7. nutburger
  8. nutburgers
  9. Nutbush
  10. nutbusting
  11. nutbutter

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