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单词 nut-brown
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nut-brownadj.n.

Brit. /ˌnʌtˈbraʊn/, U.S. /ˈnətˈbraʊn/
Forms: see nut n.1 and brown adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nut n.1, brown adj.
Etymology: < nut n.1 + brown adj. Compare Dutch nootbruin, notebruin, German nussbraun, Swedish nötbrun, Danish nøddebrun.Attested earlier as a surname, presumably implying existence of the English word, although it is unclear in which sense, e.g.:1265 Close Rolls Henry III 69 Robertus Notebrun.1296 in W. Hudson Three Earliest Subsidies Sussex (1910) 19 Ricardo Nutebrune.1428 in H. C. Maxwell-Lyte Inquisitions & Assessm. Feudal Aids (1908) V. 149 Johannes Notebrown. N.E.D. (1907) indicates the stress as ˈnut-brown.
A. adj.
1. That is the colour of a ripe hazelnut; brown as a nut; of a warm reddish-brown colour.
a. Of hair or complexion, or of (the skin of) an animal.As applied to complexions, nut-brown was originally used with reference to acquired colour, as from exposure to the sun, rather than to natural pigmentation.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown > nut or chestnut
nut-browna1400
hazeled1548
nut-brown1575
hazel1580
nut-brown1586
chestnut-coloured1636
chestnut1656
chestnut-brown1656
castaneous1688
nutty brown1839
chestnutty1893
nutmeg1965
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 18846 (MED) Berd and hefd of a heu ware, Nute brun [a1400 Fairf. note broun, a1400 Gött. Nutte brun] als i tald yow are.
1575 G. Gascoigne Hearbes in Wks. (1587) I. 356 A louely nutbrowne face is best of all.
1595 R. Parry Moderatus xv. sig. S3 Her nut-browne haire hanging about her shoulders made her beautifull visage..farre more amiable.
1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. Prol. 71 Every man who thinks himself a Wit..With his white Wigg sets off his Nut-brown Face.
1723 London Gaz. No. 6154/4 One Nut-brown Mare.
1767 ‘A. Barton’ Disappointment ii. i. 34 She is so charming sweet and fair, Her rosy cheeks and nut brown hair.
1823 Ld. Byron Island ii. vii. 25 The sun-born blood..threw O'er her clear nut-brown skin a lucid hue.
a1835 Young Johnstone (Motherwell) xxiv, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1886) II. iv. 293/2Nut-brown was his hawk,’ they said, ‘And yellow-fit was his hound.’
a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. ix. 152 Her hair was nut-brown.
1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xxv. 274 She had a round, nut-brown, soft face.
1951 S. H. Bell December Bride ii. xiv. 157 Speeding down Knocknadreemally towards her..came a sulky, drawn by a nutbrown high-stepping pony with yellow bandaged fetlocks.
1992 Matrix Summer 21/1 She's a slim, compact woman, her skin nut-brown and flawless.
b. Of a person, in respect of complexion. Esp. in nut-brown maid.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > tan > [adjective]
brownc1384
nut-brownc1503
weather-beaten1530
tanned1564
tan-faced1614
tan-skinned1614
brown-complexioned1704
tanninga1717
brown-skinned1745
suntanned1796
well-tanned1815
weather-bronzed1837
bronzed1842
weather-tanned1853
saddle-coloured1854
bronze-faced1896
tan1963
c1503 Nutbrown Maid in R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxvv Shal neyer be sayd the Nutbrowne mayd was to her loue vnkind.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 43v If she be well sette, then call hir a Bosse,..if Nutbrowne, as blacke as a coale.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Fille The nut-browne lasse for mirth and neatnesse doth surpasse.
a1640 P. Massinger Guardian i. i. 345 in 3 New Playes (1655) My Tenants Nutbrown daughters, wholsom Girls.
1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 299 Shown him by the nutbrown maids A branch of Styx here rises from the Shades.
1770 E. Thompson Court of Cupid II. 4 With her gay Adonis plac'd In a soft attitude of love, and joy, And fine the contrast of the nut-brown Boy.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. ii*. 70 The attention which was paid to every word that he uttered by the nut-brown Mysie.
1895 Daily News 20 Mar. 7/1 For the nut-brown maids, who strike the happy medium between dark and fair, there is a large choice of gentle tints.
1962 D. Lessing Golden Notebk. (1974) iii. 373 She was in type similar to Marion: another nut-brown maid, tending to a glossy and lively untidiness.
1989 K. Miller Authors (BNC) 60 A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards, he is light-skinned in the West Indies.
c. Of a thing, formerly esp. ale.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown > nut or chestnut
nut-browna1400
hazeled1548
nut-brown1575
hazel1580
nut-brown1586
chestnut-coloured1636
chestnut1656
chestnut-brown1656
castaneous1688
nutty brown1839
chestnutty1893
nutmeg1965
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle ii. sig. Bv I loue no rost, but a nut browne toste and a Crab layde in the fyre.
1602 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) iv. xx. 96 Nor lacks he gleefull tales, whil'st round the nut-brown Bole doth trot.
1608 T. Dekker Belman of London sig. B3v Nut-browne round trenchers lay in good order.
a1668 W. Davenant News from Plimouth iii, in Wks. (1673) 14/2 Good Nutbrowne-Ale, and Tost.
1708 W. King Art of Cookery 6 A Prince..Quenches his Thirst with Ale in Nut-Brown Bowls.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 221 Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspir'd.
1831 J. Brown Let. 26 Oct. (1912) 23 There is plenty of home-brewed ‘Nutbrown’ ale.
1892 A. Austin Fortunatus Pessimist ii. iii. 104 When your loaves Turn nut-brown in the baking.
1900 Daily News 1 Sept. 6/7 A nut-brown cloth dress..has a petticoat of nut-brown moirette to match it.
1952–7 S. J. Perelman Road to Miltown (1957) 12 In fancy you are in England, peradventure at some transpontine hostel with a goodly company, quaffing the nut-brown October ale.
a1978 S. T. Warner One Thing leading to Another (1985) 38 The scenes were painted in shades of green and sepia; their bases and surrounds were nut brown.
d. Applied to colour.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown > nut or chestnut
nut-browna1400
hazeled1548
nut-brown1575
hazel1580
nut-brown1586
chestnut-coloured1636
chestnut1656
chestnut-brown1656
castaneous1688
nutty brown1839
chestnutty1893
nutmeg1965
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. N7v The nutbrowne collour of seller ale in a frostie morning.
1594 Knacke to knowe Knaue sig. D2v Ile tel the king the maid is fair, Of nut browne cullour, comelie and fair spoken.
1630 Tincker of Turvey iv. 35 His haire in curled lockes hung downe, And well I wot the colour was nut browne.
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. viii His Hair was of a nut-brown Colour. View more context for this quotation
1781 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 164 The jaws..being as hard as a crab's claw, and placed in a strong horny head, which is of a nut-brown colour.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. v. 166 Upon whose complexion the ‘skyey influences’..had blended the red and white into the purely nut-brown hue.
1893 Science 3 Feb. 59/1 It [sc. a sea-cow] was of a nut-brown color and covered with hair.
1994 Runner's World Feb. 33/2 (advt.) A superior technique..that exposes oak to ammonia fumes for a rich, nut-brown color.
2. Of a sword or its blade: burnished. Cf. brown adj. 4. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > light > reflection > [adjective] > made reflective or lustrous
ybrent1297
yburnuschtc1330
polisheda1382
burnishedc1400
well-polished1485
glazed1530
slicked1594
glossed1602
nut-brown1609
well-glossed?1611
perpolished1616
varnished1642
reflectorized1932
1609 T. Ravenscroft Deuteromelia 47 He pulled out his nut-browne sword, And wipt the rust off with his sleeue.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 157 The Squire..on his nut-brown Whiniard bore The Trophee-Fiddle and the Case.
1674 S. Butler Hudibras (new ed.) i. ii. 102 When his nut-brown Sword was out, Courageously he laid about.
a1835 J. Hogg Wks. Ettrick Shepherd (1876) 79 He drew hys sword of nutte-browne steele, While neid-fyre kyndlit in hys ee.
3. figurative. Rustic. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [adjective] > peasant or rustic
churlisha1000
upland14..
rustical?a1475
ruric1488
rusticate?a1505
rural1513
upalands1535
clownish1570
rustic1582
clownical1614
clown-likea1640
swainish1642
nut-brown1648
countrified1653
Corydonical1656
sylvatic1661
villatic1671
farmerly1689
peasant1702
soil-bound1814
farmerish1835
farmery1862
corn-pone1919
swede-bashing1936
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adjective]
churlisha1000
ruric1488
rural1513
rusticalc1525
peasant1550
peasantly1569
clownish1570
rustic1576
shepherdly1579
russet1598
clownical1614
clown-likea1640
nut-brown1648
countrified1653
high-shoon1654
Corydonical1656
high-shod1656
sylvatic1661
villatic1671
russet-coated1683
one-gallus1881
one-gallused1887
red-necked1896
rube1898
takhaar1899
backwoodsya1910
swede-bashing1936
backwoodish1946
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. S8 Thy Nut-browne mirth; thy Russet wit.
B. n.
1. A nut-brown colour.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > reddish brown > nut or chestnut
chestnut-colour1555
chestnuta1616
chestnut-brown1656
nutmeg colour1687
nut-brownc1775
c1775 W. Bartram in Auk (1936) 53 389 This is a very beautiful bird, not quite so large as the Turkey buzard, they are chiefly white the back & wings of a deep nut brown.
1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xxxix. 223 When no distinction is to be made between red and deep nut-brown.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. ix. 119 Here it [sc. moss] was a silver-green variety, the nut-brown of the gravel being visible to the width of only a foot or two in the centre.
1896 Daily News 12 Sept. 6/2 Deep nutbrowns and the red of the robin's breast are skilfully combined.
1942 W. Rose Good Neighbours iv. 47 Malt..for beer, was roasted to a nut-brown.
2.
a. A person with a nut-brown complexion. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > tan > [noun] > person
tanlinga1616
nut-brown1800
1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family I. 228 Well, and what of that, my pretty nut-brown?
b. Australian. A convict. Obsolete.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun]
prisona1225
prisonerc1384
enpresonéc1425
bird1580
warder1584
canary bird1593
penitentiala1633
convict1786
chum1819
lag1819
lagger1819
new chum1819
nut-brown1835
collegian1837
canary1840
Sydney duck1873
forty1879
zebra1882
con1893
yardbird1956
zek1968
1834 Sydney Herald 20 Oct. 2/4 The spoiled innocents of the Government gangs, y'clept by Humanitas the ‘Nut-brown faces’.]
1835 Sydney Times 13 Jan. 3/1 The learned Editors seem to think that from this authentic account of the ‘convict system’, the ‘nut browns’ have not such a pleasant time of it.
1840 Sydney Herald 17 Feb. 2/2 Captain Maconochie has applied to the Government to be allowed a band of musicians to accompany him to Norfolk Island to entertain the gentlemen ‘nutbrowns’ there.
3. Ale, beer; (now) esp. brown ale. Cf. sense A. 1c.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > ale > [noun]
aleeOE
cervoisec1487
strong barley water1625
Darbya1637
nappy1705
yill1787
nut-brown1828
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 59 Thou shalt have a cup of the nut-brown for thyself, my boy.
1832 D. Jerrold Rent Day i. iii. 20 Draw a mug of nut-brown, and Martin and I will find appetites.
1867 B. Brierley Marlocks of Merriton 121 I began to have doubts whether the parson would have cared to leave the ‘nut-brown’.
1921 N. Munro in Evening News (Glasgow) 30 May 2/1 Just a small scintilla o' the nut-brown, Bella, and a chaser—nothin' more, so help me, Peter!
2001 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 15 Nov. The traditional desserts of Thanksgiving—pumpkin, mince and pecan pies—beg for brown ales, nut browns in particular.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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