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発音

• IPA: /ˈbɹaʊnɪʃ/
• 韻: -aʊnɪʃ

形容詞

brownish (comparative more brownish, superlative most brownish)

1. Of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown.
   • 1902, Rudyard Kipling, “How the Leopard Got His Spots”, in Just So Stories‎:

     The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there; and they were 'sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over […]

   • 1942, Emily Carr, “Waterworks”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:

     Two pumps stood side by side in our kitchen. One was for well water and one was a cistern pump—water from the former was hard and clear, from the cistern it was brownish and soft.

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

     Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also.

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