brownifyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

brownify (三人称単数 現在形 brownifies, 現在分詞 brownifying, 過去形および過去分詞形 brownified)

1. To make or become more brown.
   • 1792, Joseph Palmer, A Fortnight's Ramble to the Lakes in Westmoreland:

     do not forget his green and gold, and, I have to add, a cock and pinched hat equally rusty, with a break in the centre, from the polite bows he always made, and with a pair of brownified silk stockings – such was once poor A—— – now he has short hair, a plain coat, a gigured velvet waistcoat and worsted stockings

   • 2011, Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc., Vintage Books (2011), →ISBN, page 232:

     We were all going to intermarry and brownify and hold hands and honor our essential human cousinhood – weren't we?

   • 2011 March 16, “Top 5 worst Irish accents in films”, in Metro:

     Before he was the suave superspy, Sean Connery was a handsome divil of a landlord in this 1959 Irish classic, complete with superb forced perspective leprechaun special effects and a banshee that will make you brownify your underwear.

   • 2013, Fiona Wood, Wildlife:

     Priscilla chops up all the leftover vegetables she can lay her hands on and constructs an eggy cheesy housing for them, which she brownifies until rubbery and cuts into slabs that we try to digest.