brownish
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɹaʊnɪʃ/
Adjective
brownish (comparative more brownish, superlative most brownish)
- 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.
- 1902, Rudyard Kipling, "How the Leopard Got His Spots" in Just So Stories,
Translations
of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown
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