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browned off adjective- bored or fed-up with something or something UK, 1938
- Losing that amount [£25,000 from the value of a house] through something beyond our control does leave one feeling more than a little browned off[.] — The Observer, 25 May 2003
- depressed, angry US
- They tell us good ol’ Hap Chandler is plenty browned off at the Hollywood Stars for coming out in those above-the-knee baseball panties. — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, p. 15, 3 April 1950
- Do you wonder, Charlie, that I get a bit browned off? — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 56, 1956
- She’d been browned off at him ever since he dug up her tulip bulbs for kicks last spring. — Max Shulman, I was a Teen-Age Dwarf, p. 61, 1959
- — American Speech, p. 235, October 1964: “Student slang in Hays, Kansas”
- — Robert J. Glessing, The Underground Press in America, p. 175, 1970
- I am genuinely browned off. That’s why I called you here. — John Milne, Alive and Kicking, pp. 133–134, 1998
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