Brownify

verb, slang

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make or become more brown.

    "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"

  2. 2
    To make or become more brown.; To cause to contain more racially 'brown' people, elements, or culture. informal

    "We are all going to intermarry and brownify and hold hands and honor our essential human cousinhood—weren't we?"

  3. 3
    To make or become more brown.; To become brown due to increased levels of humic material.

Etymology

From brown + -ify.

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