Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: browning
IPA transcription: [bɹ'aʊnɪŋ]
Pronunciations of browning
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: toasting, browning
    Meaning: cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill; "proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread"
  • Synonyms: Browning, Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning
    Meaning: English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)
  • Synonyms: Browning, Robert_Browning
    Meaning: English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)
  • Synonyms: Browning, John_M._Browning, John_Moses_Browning
    Meaning: United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)
Usage examples
  • While it was browning at the fire, Tubby inquired for his goose a second time.
  • Wilson, Cherry-Garrard, Wright, Griffith Taylor, Debenham, Crean, and Browning have been driving ponies, a task at which I have assisted myself once or twice.
  • Peep in at the window, and see how Nannie stands at the kitchen table, cutting out little cakes from a bit of dough that her mother has given her; she is all absorbed in her play, and her mother has gone to look into the oven at the nicely browning loaves.
  • His intimate friends, those whom he loved and honored, were Browning, Butler, Logan, and Stuart--Kentuckians all, and strongly averse to any discussion of the question of slavery. The public opinion of his county, which was then little less than the breath of his life, was all the same way.
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