brownish

Definition

Of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown.

Etymology

From brown + -ish.

Example Sentences

• "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 […]"
• "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."
• "Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also."