Definitions
Etymologies
- brown + -ish (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Beige it is — upholstered, carpeted, and painted in brownish, grayish, yellowish hues.”
“Steve Nash and his teammates served up plates of food, with the menu consisting of white chunks of something in brownish-orange sauce over white rice.”
“But then after it was fully eclipsed, it turned a kind of brownish-red.”
“It was hazy like that on the best of days and the "brownish" cloudy areas are a very good representation of the 1960's/70's smog.”
“When I went to put oil in a few weeks ago, I had the same kind of brownish goop on the oil cap when I took it off.”
“Guess the "brownish" gene is pretty dominant in my house.”
“When they approach, they quickly see that inside the cup is some kind of brownish green liquid that may pass as healthy.”
“And at those speeds, at those speeds, the ice or foam, which could fall off the external tank, which is this kind of brownish color, at those speeds, it could damage some of these tiles.”
“And the shadders was soft and thick and velvety and laid kind of brownish-greeney on the grass.”
“He was clad in a coarse kind of brownish stuff, like the first, roughly and loosely woven.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brownish’.
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brown phrases/words
how brown is used
brown ale, brown algae, brown ant, brown-back, brown bag, brown-bag, brown-bagger, brown-bagging, brown-bag lunch, brown baker, brown-barrelled, brown bastard and 119 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
Tweets
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yarb Citation on throaty. Jun 22, 2008