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ALL meanings of browned off

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  • adjective browned off If you say that you are browned off, you mean that you are annoyed and depressed. 3
  • adjective browned off thoroughly discouraged or disheartened; fed up 3
  • noun browned off Brown as a noun and adjective to describe people with a brownish skin color is often perceived as insulting. Historically it has been used by anthropologists and scientists as a racial and ethnic classification to describe various dark-skinned populations, as in North Africa, the Middle East, Malaysia, and South Asia. It is also a term associated with colonialism. In recent times, brown has been used of Hispanics and South Asians in North America, many of whom self-identify as brown. 1
  • noun browned off a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue. 1
  • noun browned off Offensive. a person whose skin has a light- or dark-brown pigmentation. 1
  • adjective browned off of the color brown. 1
  • adjective browned off (of animals) having skin, fur, hair, or feathers of that color. 1
  • adjective browned off sunburned or tanned. 1
  • adjective browned off Often Offensive. (of human beings) having the skin naturally pigmented a brown color. 1
  • idioms browned off browned off, Slang. angry; fed up. 1
  • idioms browned off do it up brown, Informal. to do thoroughly: When they entertain, they really do it up brown. 1
  • adjective browned off (Idiomatic) SLA Annoyed, upset, angry, bored, fed up, disgusted. 0
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