different between brownish vs browny

English

brown +? -ish

brownish (comparative more brownish, superlative most brownish)

Of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown.
- 1902, Rudyard Kipling, "How the Leopard Got His Spots" in Just So Stories, [1]
  The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there; and they were 'sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over […]
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Waterworks," [2]
  Two pumps stood side by side in our kitchen. One was for well water and one was a cistern pump—water from the former was hard and clear, from the cistern it was brownish and soft.

brown +? -y

browny (comparative more browny, superlative most browny)

Somewhat brown; having a brownish tinge.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint
  His browny locks did hang in crooked curles.

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