Dictionary

brown-eyed en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brown, eyed; having brown eyes.
2. (not-comparable) Characteristic of or pertaining to people of color.
   • Brown-eyed women and red grenadine the bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean 1971, Robert Hunter, Brown-eyed women (Grateful Dead song):
   • The concept of brown-eyed children originates from Parker's perspective (1918) that the birth and influence of brown-eyed children has been instrumental in building civilizations. Identifying Ethiopia as the mother of African early civilization, he exemplifies how art, literature, and science flourished thanks to their contributions that culturally enriched the larger Mediterraneean and continued across the oceans. 2016, Frank Hernandez, Elizabeth T. Murakami, BrownEyed Leaders of the Sun:
   • While Aretha Franklin was brown-eyed soul, her protégée Adele is blue-eyed soul.
   • El Chicano's "Viva Tirado" not only helps excavate the roots of brown-eyed soul, the group and 1960s scene reveal the complexity of the period in which brown-eyed soul flourished. 2012, Brian D Behnken, The Struggle in Black and Brown, page 222:
   • Taking a previously pejorative term that had existed along the U.S.-Mexican border for decades, these brown-eyed children of the sun rejected dominant versions of U.S. history, and began the arduous journey toward self-determination and self-definition. 2005, George Mariscal, Brown-eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975, page 3:
   • The judge's wife called up the district attorney, Said, 'You free that brown-eyed man! Berry, who had himself had been in gaol, but whose stage manner was always rather debonair (like his lyrics), was making fun of the white suspicion of the stereotypical promiscous black man.Back ever since the world began There's been a whole lot of good women shed a tear For a brown-eyed handsome man 2015, Andrew Ford, Earth Dances: Music in Search of the Primitive:

Forms

Coordinates

black-eyed · green-eyed · hazel-eyed · red-eyed · blue-eyed

Deriveds

brown-eyed soul · brown-eyed Susan

Translations (12)

pl brązowooki (having brown eyes) · fi ruskeasilmäinen (having brown eyes) · el καστανομάτης (having brown eyes) · ru кареглазый (having brown eyes) · hu barna szemű (having brown eyes) · is brúneygður (having brown eyes) · de braunäugig (having brown eyes) · sv brunögd (having brown eyes) · is brúneygur (having brown eyes) · es ojimoreno (having brown eyes) · ga donnroscach (having brown eyes) · cs hnědooký (having brown eyes)