Broon
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  • Broon is sometimes (especially in the northern UK
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

    ) a variant spelling or pronunciation for the color brown
    Brown
    Brown is a color term, denoting a range of composite colors produced by a mixture of orange, red, rose, or yellow with black or gray. The term is from Old English brún, in origin for any dusky or dark shade of color....

  • Broon is also sometimes a slang term for a beer: Newcastle Brown Ale
    Newcastle Brown Ale
    Newcastle Brown Ale is a beer produced by Heineken International. It was introduced in 1927 by Newcastle Breweries. In 2005, brewing was moved out of Newcastle upon Tyne for the first time, to Dunston on the other side of the River Tyne, and in 2010 moved entirely to Tadcaster, North Yorkshire...

  • A comic strip, The Broons
    The Broons
    The Broons is a comic strip in Scots published in the weekly Scottish newspaper, The Sunday Post. It features the Broon family, who live in a tenement flat at 10 Glebe Street, in the fictional Scottish town of Auchentogle or Auchenshoogle . They are also shown as living on Glebe Street...

  • Broon may possibly have other meanings, see Brown (disambiguation)
    Brown (disambiguation)
    Brown is a color.Brown may also refer to:Biology:*Satyrinae, a subfamily of butterflies commonly called the browns*Elymniini, a large tribe of Satyrinae commonly called the true browns...

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