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DONE BROWN

Definition: DONE BROWN

DONE BROWN

1. A phrase in cookery; applied figuratively to one who has been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: DONE BROWN

Domain	Definition
Literature	Done Brown He was done brown. Completely bamboozled or made a fool of. This is a variety of the many expressions of a similar meaning connected with cooking, such as "I gave him a roasting," "I cooked his goose," "I cut him into mince-meat," "I put him into a pretty stew," "I settled his hash," "He was dished up," "He was well dressed" [drubbed], "He was served out," etc. (See Cooking.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: DONE BROWN

Language		Translations for "DONE BROWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		良く焼けた (well done). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		よくやけた (well done). (various references)

Pig Latin		oneday ownbray
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: DONE BROWN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-n-n-o-o-r-w"
	-2 letters: browned, newborn, nonword.
	-3 letters: bonder, browed, downer, renown, wonder, wonned, wonner, wooden.
	-4 letters: boned, boner, bonne, booed, bored, borne, boron, bowed, bower, brood, brown, dobro, donne, donor, dower, drone, drown, endow, odeon, orbed, owned, owner, redon, rewon, robed, rodeo, rondo, rowed, rowen, wooed, wooer.
	-5 letters: bend, bode, bond, bone, boon, boor, bore, born, bred.
	Words containing the letters "b-d-e-n-n-o-o-r-w"
	+1 letter: brownnosed.
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Alternative Orthography: DONE BROWN

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 4F 4E 45 42 52 4F 57 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001111 01001110 01000101 00100000 01000010 01010010 01001111 01010111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#78 &#69 &#32 &#66 &#82 &#79 &#87 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 004E 0045 0042 0052 004F 0057 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3849483923652495748

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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