brown

Universal Words adjective, noun, verb adjective (browner, brownest) 1 having the colour of earth, or coffee mixed with milk: brown eyes * brown bread * dark brown shoe polish * a package wrapped in brown paper 2 (especially BrE) having skin that is naturally brown or has been made brown by the sun: I don't go brown very easily. * After the summer in Spain, the children were brown as berries. IDIOMS in a brown study (BrE, old-fashioned) thinking deeply so that you do not notice what is happening around you noun [U,C] the colour of earth, or coffee mixed with milk: leaves of various shades of brown * Brown doesn't (= brown clothes don't) suit you. verb to become brown; to make sth brown: [V] Heat the butter until it browns. * The grass was browning in patches. * [VN] Brown the onions before adding the meat. IDIOMS browned off (with sb) (BrE, informal) bored, unhappy and/or annoyed: By now the passengers were getting browned off with the delay.