browned-off

adjective

1. informal.
   thoroughly discouraged or disheartened; fed up

Idioms and Phrases

Very angry, as in When she locked me out I was really browned off . This expression originated as Royal Air Force slang for “disgusted” and “depressed” in the late 1930s and had crossed the Atlantic by World War II. It gradually came to be used more widely as a slangy synonym for “infuriated.” One theory for its origin, mentioned by Eric Partridge in his slang dictionary, is that it alludes to brass buttons on a uniform turning brown from lack of polishing. Partridge noted, however, that the “predominant Army opinion” was that the word had the same literal meaning as buggered .

Example Sentences

In places the grasses are punishingly thick for this Open, but as fearsome as it looks, the rough has browned off, it is more brittle than juicy and therefore potentially playable.

From BBC

That one, he said, “was made with shoulder of pork browned off lovingly in butter until golden.”

From New York Times

“I am so browned off with the whole madhouse I don’t really care much what happens.”

From New York Times

Related Words

• desperate
• enraged
• fierce
• frantic
• frenetic
• frenzied
• incensed
• livid
• raging
• vehement
• violent