brownedadj.
/braʊnd/ 1. † b. browned-black adj. Obsolete.
a. Made brown.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > making or becoming brown > [adjective] > made brown
umbereda1616
well-browned1723
embrowned1739
browned1871
1871 Daily News 16 Aug. Every sort of rotten..cranky craft, is painted and varnished, literally, a whited or a browned sepulchre.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton ii. 10 The tall, browned, big-bearded man.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > darkness > [adjective]
blackeOE
browned-black?c1510
dark?1537
black-faced1581
adust?1586
black-visaged1602
mulatto1622
kettle-faced1680
black-favoured1681
black-a-top1685
brown-complexioned1704
blackavised1721
brunette1724
brune1747
dark-skinned1750
black-looking1753
melanic1826
melanous1836
brunet1840
copper-skinned1873
brown-skinned1904
brown-
?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Avi The people..be brounde blacke.
2. browned off, bored, ‘fed-up’, disgusted. Hence browned-offness [-ness suffix] , the condition of being ‘browned off’. slang. Partridge Dict. Slang (1961) states ‘Regular Army since ca. 1915; adopted by the R.A.F. ca. 1929’; but pre-1938 printed evidence is lacking.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun]
sada1200
fastidiuma1398
irkingc1400
irksomeness1435
tediousness1482
tediation1485
annuisance1502
weariness1526
wearisomenessa1568
irk1570
languor1596
tedification1616
tedium1662
ennui1758
dullery1841
boredom1853
mawkishness1861
fed-'upness1910
mouldiness1916
browned-offness1938
noia1944
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective]
irk1303
tedious1430
irksome1435
irked1513
ennuyé1757
seccatored1763
yawny1805
bored1823
used up1839
yawnish1855
fed up1900
fed to the (back) teeth1921
browned off1938
brassed1941
cheesed1941
chocker1942
pissy1962
1938 ‘J. Curtis’ They drive by Night ii. 28 What the hell had he got to be so browned off about? He ought to be feeling proper chirpy.
1941 Men Only May 8 We have worked hard for success, and now that it has come we are robbed of it by this paper shortage. Believe us, we are properly browned off.
1942 W. Simpson One of our Pilots is Safe ii. 19 Most of our time was spent moping about the aerodrome getting thoroughly ‘browned-off’, and hoping against hope for some real action.
1943 W. Robson Let. 15 Aug. (1960) 53 Splendid things for combating the deadly browned-offness.
1958 Observer 9 Nov. 4/4 Medical boards were always being begged by browned-off invalids to pass them fit for active service.
1966 Observer 27 Feb. 28/7 This [programme] has got over an initial stage of browned-offness, mutiny on the knees, dumb insolence.
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adj.?c1510