BROWNSHIRT

Brownshirt

(noun) a member of the Nazi SA which wore brown uniforms

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

Brownshirt (plural Brownshirts)

A uniformed member of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), especially a storm trooper of the Sturmabteilung.

Any member of a fascist party; any fascist or neo-Nazi.

Noun

brownshirt (plural brownshirts)

Alternative letter-case form of Brownshirt

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

10 June 2025

COMMUNICATIONS

(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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