brownish

brownish

English

Etymology

brown +‎ -ish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹaʊnɪʃ/
• Rhymes: -aʊnɪʃ

Adjective

brownish (comparative more brownish, superlative most 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, “Waterworks”, in The Book of Small:

     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.

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:

     Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also.

Translations

of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown

Catalan: brunenc Czech: hnědavý (cs) Dutch: bruinig (nl), bruinachtig (nl) Esperanto: bruneta Estonian: pruunikas Faroese: brúnligur Finnish: ruskehtava French: brunâtre (fr) German: bräunlich (de) Hungarian: barnás (hu) Irish: scothdhonn Italian: brunastro Kalmyk: күрңтр (kürngtr) Latvian: iebrūns, brūngans, brūnīgs Norwegian: Bokmål: brunlig Nynorsk: brunleg Polish: brązowawy (pl) Portuguese: amarronzado Romanian: maroniu (ro) Russian: коричнева́тый (ru) (koričnevátyj), бурова́тый (ru) (burovátyj) Spanish: pardusco (es) Swedish: brunaktig (sv) Turkish: kahverengimsi (tr), kahvemsi, kahvemtırak, bozumsu, bozumtırak, bozlak (tr), kumral (tr) Volapük: braunilik (vo)