单词 | orangey |
释义 | orangeyadj. Resembling an orange in colour, smell, taste, etc.; suggestive of an orange or oranges; orange-coloured or tinged. Also: covered in orange. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > orange > [adjective] orange1532 oranged1538 orange-coloured1551 orange-tawnya1637 orangey1779 orangish1888 pumpkin orange1929 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > citrus fruit > [adjective] > resembling orange orangey1779 1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 129 The Sun rose orangey. 1859 All Year Round 3 Sept. 452/1 Sturdy giants in orangy blouses. 1913 H. Walpole Fortitude i. xii. 165 My fingers are all over orange... I always have an orange before dinner... I am orangy. 1919 C. Orr Glorious Thing xx. 245 A delicious, warm, orangy smell hung about the kitchen walls. 1977 ‘C. Fremlin’ Spider-orchid iv. 32 The orangy glow of the standard lamp. 1999 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) June 242/2 Juiced Up Shower Gel is so orangey, it's one of the best wake-up calls you can give your body. CompoundsWith other adjectives and nouns of colour, expressing a mixture with orange. C1. orangey-blue n. ΚΠ 1977 A. Scholefield Venom iii. 118 Eyes weeping, knuckles orangey-blue. C2. orangey-brown adj. ΚΠ 1968 H. R. F. Keating Inspector Ghote hunts Peacock i. 8 Its hideous orangey-brown colour, masquerading as the tan of leather. 1994 Equinox Spring 52/1 The tricoastal lion's mane, an orangy brown jelly that in northern waters can..grow to 3 metres in diameter. C3. orangey-buff adj. and n. ΚΠ 1976 H. R. F. Keating Filmi, Filmi xiii. 123 A sportingly cut orangey-buff suit. 1986 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 2 Feb. (Sports section) 9 Don't ignore the tiger stripes in orangey buff that will blend you into autumn's leafy splendour. orangey-gold adj. and n. ΚΠ 1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Apr. x. 12/1 Among the outstanding fragments are a third-century weaving, boldly colored in black and orangey golds. 1992 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 11 Sept. (What's Happening section) The almond refrigerator and the orangy-gold dining room set. orangey-red adj. and n. ΚΠ 1852 Trans. Royal Soc. 142 514 Red colouring matter contained in orangy red, red, pink, and purple sea-weeds. 1998 Independent 24 Oct. (Mag.) 47/2 People want the characteristic orangey-red bricks to repair existing walls. orangey-yellow adj. and n. ΚΠ 1965 Philos. Q. 15 212 Any uniformly-coloured thing which could, quite correctly, be said to be orange or yellow would necessarily be orangey-yellow. 1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Feb. 170/2 He had a certain palette, too—the deep-gray felt, the orangey-yellow fat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1779 |
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