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The color of mediocrity: not quite brown, not quite gray, entirely unbothered.
means A dull grayish-brown color, often used to describe the muted coats of horses or the drab tone of something lacking vibrancy.
from From Old English 'dunn,' meaning a dull brown or grayish-brown, a word with Celtic cousins — likely related to Old Irish 'donn' meaning brown. It's one of the oldest color words in English, long used for horses (a 'dun' horse still means that washed-out tan-gray coat today) before it widened to describe anything equally unremarkable.
- origin
- Old English dunn, meaning dull grayish-brown
- horse term
- describes a diluted coat with dark mane and legs
- unrelated homonym
- also means to pester someone for payment
- color code
- hex roughly 614b3a, aggressively unremarkable