Meaning of brownify | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make or become more brown.
2. To cause to contain more racially 'brown' people, elements, or culture.
   informal
3. To become brown due to increased levels of humic material.

Examples

“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”

“We were all going to intermarry and brownify and hold hands and honor our essential human cousinhood – weren't we?”

“Before he was the suave superspy, Sean Connery was a handsome divil of a landlord in this 1959 Irish classic, complete with superb forced perspective leprechaun special effects and a banshee that will make you brownify your underwear.”

“Priscilla chops up all the leftover vegetables she can lay her hands on and constructs an eggy cheesy housing for them, which she brownifies until rubbery and cuts into slabs that we try to digest.”

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

“Peña's virtual barrio calls attention to the marginality, if not invisibility, of racial and class differences online, while also symbolizing the need to “brownify” its Euro-American white spaces.”

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