done brown

English

Etymology

From cookery, where food is cooked until brown.

Adjective

done brown (not comparable)

1. (dated) Thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “done brown”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• borne down, downborne