broon

Conserved from Middle English broun, from Old English brūn as opposed to the Standard English pronunciation.

• (Geordie) IPA^(key): /bɹuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

broon (countable and uncountable, plural broons)

1. (Geordie, Scotland) The colour brown.

broon (comparative more broon, superlative most broon)

1. (Geordie, Scotland) Of the colour brown.

• Broon (Geordie)
• Broonale (Geordie)
• brown ale

• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “BROON”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.

• Borno, Boron, boron

• IPA^(key): /ˈbro.on/

broon

1. genitive singular of brao

From Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz.

• IPA^(key): /bruːn/, /bɹuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

broon (plural broons)

1. The colour brown.

broon (comparative mair broon, superlative maist broon)

1. Of the colour brown.

• broun