browning

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹaʊ.nɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aʊnɪŋ

browning (countable and uncountable, plural brownings)

1. The act or operation of giving a brown colour, as to gun barrels, cooked food, etc.
2. Any of various preparations used to impart a brown colour to gravy, leather, etc.
3. (masonry) A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.
4. (Jamaica, countable) A brown-skinned person.
   • 2017, “Peng Ting”, performed by Mackareo:

     One or two white gyal / Three or four lighties / Five or six darkies / Seven or eight brownings

• (gun barrels): bluing

• brownification
• embrowning

browning

1. present participle and gerund of brown

• brownin, brownin'

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɔʊ̯nɪn/
• Hyphenation: brow‧ning

Blend of brown (“lightskin”) +‎ -ing.

browning (plural browning dem, quantified browning)

1. a lightskin female (of colour)

   Synonym: brown gyal

   Psst! Browning! Sexy dawta! Yuh nuh hear big man a call yuh?

   Hey, light-skinned girl! Sexy lady! Don't you hear me calling you over?

   • 2002, Mervyn C. Alleyne, The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean (in English), →ISBN, page 225:

     One such song went thus:
     […]
     Dem a bleach up dem skin
     To look like browning
     […]

     One such song went thus: They're using skin-lightening creams to look like light-skinned girls.

• brown (“lightskin”)
• brown man (“lightskin male (of colour)”)

• empress (“m'lady”)
• high colour (“fair”)

browning (plural browning dem, quantified browning)

1. browning (caramel-based food additive)

   Dis waan likkle supn. Put een likkle browning.

   This needs a little something. Add a little browning.

   • 2019, Krysta Anderson, “Bun in the oven?”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎ (in English):

     “Preheat oven to 150ºC/300ºF. Grease a loaf pan with baking spray or margarine; set aside. In a large mixing bowl, beat eggs until foamy, add vanilla, molasses (if use[sic]) browning, stout, melted butter and sugar, mix until the granules dissolve. […] ”

• brauning (less common)

Unadapted borrowing from English Browning, named after American firearm designer John Browning.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbraw.ɲiŋk/

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• Rhymes: -awɲiŋk
• Syllabification: brow‧ning

browning m inan

1. (firearms) any type of semi-automatic pistol manufactured by Browning Arms Company

• browning in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• browning in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English Browning.

browning n (plural browninguri)

1. Browning (gun)

• browning in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN