brownish
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈbɹaʊnɪʃ/
Adjective

brownish

  1. Of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown.
    • 1902, Rudyard Kipling, "How the Leopard Got His Spots" in Just So Stories,
      The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there; and they were 'sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over […]
    • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Waterworks,"
      Two pumps stood side by side in our kitchen. One was for well water and one was a cistern pump—water from the former was hard and clear, from the cistern it was brownish and soft.
Translations
  • French: brunâtre
  • German: bräunlich
  • Italian: brunastro
  • Portuguese: amarronzado
  • Russian: коричнева́тый
  • Spanish: pardusco



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