10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BROWSY»
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Dictionary of Newfoundland English
3 Attrib browse partridge: Allen's willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus). 1959
MCATEE 24 ~ Willow Ptarmigan (One that feeds on woody growth. Labr.).
browse taste: of animals feeding on twigs and bark, with a woody flavour;
BROWSY.
George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson, 1990
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The public school word-book
Also (more frequently) browsy: e.g. a browsy morning = a morning in which little
work is done ; an awfully browsy day, or time = an enjoyable time. Verb. To enjoy
; to like : generally with on : e.g. " I browse on old Smith," or, " on Science hour.
John Stephen Farmer, 1900
3
The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland: ...
You're all too black and too browsy, &c. We're good enough for you, sir, &c.
Through the kitchen and over the wall, Pick the fairest of us all. The fairest is that I
can see, pretty Miss , come to me. — East Kirkby, Lincolnshire (Miss K. Maughan;
VII.
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A Dictionary of British Folklore, 2
You're all too black and too browsy, &c. We're good enough for you, sir, &c.
Through the kitchen and over the wall, Pick the fairest of us all. The fairest is that I
can see, pretty Miss , come to me. — East Kirkby, Lincolnshire (Miss K. Maughan)
.
George Laurence Gomme, 1898
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The Kindergarten for Teachers and Parents
You are all so black and browsy, you set my heart arowsy, With golden chains
about your neck, you're all so black and browsy." " We are quite as good as you,
sir, you, sir, you, sir, We are quite as good as you, sir, a ransy, tansy, Tillie-y-Lee.
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Old Country and Farming Words: Gleaned from Agricultural Books
197. [Hence the verb to browse is derived. — W. W. S.] Browsy. Full of browse,
brushwood. ' The knotty mossy bodies and browsy heads of oaks.' — Modern
Husbandman, VII. i. 12. ' A brousy bushy head occasioned at first by the cattle's
bite.
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reprinted glossaries and old framing words
197. [Hence the verb to browse is derived. — W. W. S.] Browsy. Full of browse,
brushwood. ' The knotty mossy bodies and browsy heads of "oaks.' — Modern
Husbandman, VII. i. 12. ' A brousy bushy head occasioned at first by the cattle's
bite.
“He seated her down by his bright side."—Lord Thomas. broadways, adv.
Straightwayl “And broadways they came toesling under.”—Sweet William. browsy
, adj. Drowsy ? “ You look too brown and browsy.”—Here Come Two Dukes A-
Roving.
BROWN CROPS. sb. pi. Pulse crops, beans, peas, etc. [Hund. of Berk.] BROWN
HAWK. sb. The kestrel. [Tortworth.] BROWSY. adj. Of a ruddy complexion. [
Selsley.] " The BROWSIEST of jour daughters came to see me." BRUGGLE
THROUGH.
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The Kindergarten-primary Magazine
"You are all so black and browsy, you • set my heart arowsy. With golden chains
about your neck, you're all so black and browsy." " We are quite as good as you,
sir, you, sir, you, sir, We are quite as good as you, sir, a ransy, tansy, Tillie-y-Lee.
Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle, 1892
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