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Definition of Browny
1. a. Brown or, somewhat brown.
Definition of Browny
1. Adjective. Somewhat brown; having a brownish tinge. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Browny
1. somewhat brown [adj BROWNIER, BROWNIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Browny
Literary usage of Browny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore; a by John Brand, William Carew Hazlitt (1905)
"This was intended to be equivalent to cutting off with a shilling. Broose.—Compare
Hiding. browny.— There were thought to have been a sort of domestic ..."
2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"... to browny, with whom afterwards they were no more troubled. ... and browny,
not being regarded nor rewarded as formerly he had been, abandoned his ..."
3. The Winston Readers by Sidney Grant Firman, Ethel Maltby Gehres (1918)
"THE WOLF VISITS browny Soon the wolf came and rapped at the door. He said, "Little
pig, little pig, let me come in. ..."
4. Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Revolution by Robert Chambers (1874)
"One of the party, who had the second-sight, saw browny ' come in several times
and make a show of carrying an old woman from the fireside to the door; ..."
5. The Green Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang (1906)
"browny was quite delighted with his soft mud walls and with the clay floor, ...
But that was what browny enjoyed, and he was as happy as possible, ..."
6. The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine by John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (1803)
"and if lie did not cease to rea J in it any more, browny would not ferve him as
formerly. But the man continued his reading ..."
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