| 单词 | whitey-blue |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhitey-blue C1. Modifying adjectives and nouns of colour, as whitey-blue, whitey-grey, etc.Recorded earliest in whitey-brown adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adverb] > light or pale whitey1658 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) i. xiv. 961 It hath horns broad and bended, of a whity-brown colour. 1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 744 The grun' was whitey-blue, wi' a sliddery sort o' sleet. 1879 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis (1882) I. 311 The Shah's yacht..is painted of a dirty whity-yellow colour. 1922 Amer. Mag. Art Mar. 91/1 The willows themselves wear many hues, from whitey-green and greenish grey to emerald. 2001 J. Boyle Galloway Street 34 Sago is like rice only it's this whitey grey stuff with wee blobs in it you can nearly see through. < as lemmas |
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