💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Brownface"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| blackfacenoun | (uncountable) The practice in which a nonblack person blackens their face using theatrical makeup in order to portray a caricature of a black person. |
| blackfacingnoun | performance in blackface makeup |
| pale facenoun | Alternative form of paleface. [(ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) A white person, a person of European descent, particularly in Native American contexts.] |
| browningnoun | The act or operation of giving a brown colour, as to gun barrels, cooked food, etc. |
| brown bag testnoun | (medicine) The practice of having a patient bring all of their existing medications to an appointment with the doctor, as a way to see what has previously been prescribed and what drug interactions might be occurring. |
| palefacenoun | (ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) A white person, a person of European descent, particularly in Native American contexts. |
| tawnynoun | A light brown to brownish orange colour. |
| blacky-whitenoun | (UK, obsolete, informal, offensive, ethnic slur) A Eurasian (person of mixed European and Asian ancestry). |
| chocolate facenoun | One whose face is covered in chocolate. |
| blackskinnoun | (obsolete) Somebody with dark-coloured flesh. |
| blackamoornoun | (now offensive) A black slave or servant, and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child. |
| blorangenoun | (informal) A pale reddish-orange hair color. |
| blackmoornoun | A number of places in England: |
| buttfacenoun | (colloquial, derogatory, sometimes vulgar) A person with an ugly face. |
| panfacenoun | (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Chinese person. |
| butter facenoun | Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see butter, face. |
| brownbaggernoun | (US, colloquial) A person who brings their own lunch to work. |
| nigger-brownnoun | (now rare, offensive, ethnic slur) A dark brown color. |
| minstrelnoun | (historical) Originally, an entertainer employed to juggle, play music, sing, tell stories, etc.; a buffoon, a fool, a jester; later, a medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment. |
| blackamorenoun | Alternative form of blackamoor. [(archaic, heraldry, now offensive) A person with dark black skin, especially one from north Africa.] |
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