marron

Variant form of maroon (“chestnut”), later reinforced by French marron.

marron (plural marrons)

1. A sweet chestnut. [from 19th c.]
   • 2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin 2007, p. 137:

     ‘I mean, shit, even if I had've come down here of a weekend and taken back a sack full of marron, I would have killed the pig up there.’

• marron glacé

Wikispecies

Nyunga marran

marron (plural marrons)

1. Cherax tenuimanus, a type of freshwater crayfish from Western Australia.

• hairy marron, Margaret River marron

• gilgie, jilgie
• yabby, yabbie

• Morran

marron

1. Genitive singular form of marto.

• IPA^(key): /ma.ʁɔ̃/

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Borrowed from Italian marrone.

marron m (plural marrons)

1. horse-chestnut
2. chestnut
3. chestnut brown
4. A token used as a control of the presence of someone at his post
5. (pyrotechnics) firecracker (on a rocket)
6. (informal) punch (with the fist)
7. (informal) head

marron (invariable)

1. (France) brown

• This adjective is used mainly in France. Elsewhere, the usual adjective is brun.
• Like all colors that take their name from animals and plants, this sense of the adjective is invariable. However, by analogy with the corresponding noun which has a plural, some people may erroneously consider it variable in number and use marrons as the plural.

• → Asturian: marrón
• → Catalan: marró
• → Galician: marrón
• → Spanish: marrón

From a West Indies creole, from Spanish cimarrón, from cima.

marron (feminine singular marronne, masculine plural marrons, feminine plural marronnes)

1. that has become wild again (used of a slave or animal who has returned to a free or wild state)
2. illicit, crooked (of professions)

   magie marronne ― hedge magic

marron m (plural marrons)

1. maroon (a slave or animal who has run away to live free)

• “marron” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).