Wiktionary
a. (context Geordie Scotland English) Of the colour brown. n. (context Geordie Scotland English) The colour brown.
Wikipedia
- Broon is sometimes (especially in the northern UK) a variant spelling or pronunciation for the color brown
- Broon is also sometimes a slang term for a beer: Newcastle Brown Ale
- A comic strip, The Broons
- Broon may possibly have other meanings, see Brown (disambiguation)
- Broon is the name of an American Renaissance Faire stage show. Broon is portrayed by variety-comedian Brian Howard.
Usage examples of "broon".
This whole city and county is a big piece of truck garden to Dave Broon.
At first it bothered Stanger that if Broon was reasonably sure he had not left any traces, why should he advertise by taking the money?
Then they get hold of Dave Broon and tell him to see what he can come up with.
The doctor's wife, slick little Dave Broon, Hardahee's change of attitude, the strangeness of Helen Boughmer, the whisperer, and all the other little fragments of this and that.
She was in the treatment room and the lights suddenly went on and Broon is in the doorway watching her.
Probably Dave Broon slipped the lock on the rear door that night and came easing in.
He would mumble greetings, ask about Broon, listen, hang up, dial another number.
Dave Broon was handling it, under joint direction of my office and the sheriff.
If the same person, Broon, had checked me over the first tune, then I had two more reasons to believe he wasn't much more than moderately competent.
Stewart Sherman had indeed killed his wife, and in the course of his investigation the special investigator for Courtney County, Dave Broon, had come up with something that, if he reported it or turned it in, would have been enough to give a reasonable assurance of an indictment by the grand jury.
A practicing physician would be far more useful to Dave Broon than a man indicted for murder.
A man of Broon's shrewdness would probably lock it all up very carefully, perhaps by trading cooperation and silence for a written confession which could be tucked away.
One might detect here the possibility of Dave Broon stepping in and doing Pike a great favor.
One can assume that through a mutually profitable relationship Pike and Broon have become confidants.
He would slowly come to realize that there was a very small chance of their ever using the evidence of his wife's murder against him, because if indicted, he would certainly be expected to tell of the induced abortion performed at the request of Pike, with leverage by Broon, and tell of the drug that he had been supplying Pike to inject into Maureen, the drug that had caused the mental effects that baffled the neurologists and the psychiatrists.