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Brownify
verb, slang
Definitions
Verb
- 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 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 To make or become more brown.; To become brown due to increased levels of humic material.
Etymology
From brown + -ify.
See also for "brownify"
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