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browned, ppl. a.|braʊnd|
[f. brown v. + -ed1.]
1. a. Made brown.
1871Daily News 16 Aug., Every sort of rotten..cranky craft, is painted and varnished, literally, a whited or a browned sepulchre. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton ii. 10 The tall, browned, big-bearded man.
†b. browned-black. Obs.
c15111st Eng. Bk. Amer. (Arb.) Introd. 28/2 They [the natives] be brounde blacke.
2. browned off, bored, ‘fed-up’, disgusted. Hence browned-offness [-ness], 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.
1938J. 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. 1941Men 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. 1942W. Simpson One of our Pilots ii. 19 Most of our time was spent moping about the aerodrome getting thoroughly ‘browned-off’, and hoping against hope for some real action. 1943W. Robson Let. 15 Aug. (1960) 53 Splendid things for combating the deadly browned-offness. 1958Observer 9 Nov. 4/4 Medical boards were always being begged by browned-off invalids to pass them fit for active service. 1966Ibid. 27 Feb. 28/7 This [programme] has got over an initial stage of browned-offness, mutiny on the knees, dumb insolence. |