brown-eyed

See also: browneyed

English

Adjective

brown-eyed (not comparable)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brown,‎ eyed; having brown eyes.
2. Characteristic of or pertaining to people of color.

   While Aretha Franklin was brown-eyed soul, her protégée Adele is blue-eyed soul.

   • 1971, Robert Hunter, Brown-eyed women (Grateful Dead song):

     Brown-eyed women and red grenadine the bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean

   • 2005, George Mariscal, Brown-eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975, page 3:

     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.

   • 2012, Brian D Behnken, The Struggle in Black and Brown, page 222:

     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.

   • 2015, Andrew Ford, Earth Dances: Music in Search of the Primitive:

     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

   • 2016, Frank Hernandez, Elizabeth T. Murakami, BrownEyed Leaders of the Sun:

     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.

Alternative forms

• browneyed

Coordinate terms

• black-eyed
• blue-eyed
• green-eyed
• hazel-eyed
• red-eyed

Derived terms

• brown-eyed soul
• brown-eyed Susan

Translations

having brown eyes

• Czech: hnědooký (cs)
• Finnish: ruskeasilmäinen (fi)
• German: braunäugig
• Greek: καστανομάτης (el) (kastanomátis)
• Hungarian: barna szemű
• Icelandic: brúneygður, brúneygur
• Irish: donnroscach
• Polish: brązowooki (pl)
• Russian: кареглазый (ru) (kareglazyj)
• Spanish: ojimoreno
• Swedish: brunögd (sv)

Further reading

• brown-eyed soul on Wikipedia.Wikipedia