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beetrooty en · ADJ

Etymology

From beetroot + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of beetroot in color, texture, etc.
   • Swelling up with a beetrooty apoplectic rage, the Councillor seized the white silk chair and, swinging it by the arms, banged it violently against the floor […] 1961, Boris Lavrenev, Margaret Wettlin, N Jochel, The Forty First:
   • "She's coming out," screamed the smallest boy, with the whitest face, the most beetrooty nose, the thinnest blouse, and the most precocious intellect ever seen or heard of. 1859, Charles Allston Collins, “Our Eye-Witness and the Performing Bull”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round:
   • The exertion of walking in a tight dress over rough fields made her momentarily more beetrooty. 1862, James Hogg, Florence Marryat, editors, London Society:
2. Containing beetroot.
   • Innocent, sandy, smiling, smelling of clove cigarettes and beetrooty hamburgers and a faraway sea. 2006, Kate Lyons, The Corner of Your Eye:
   • The soup makes a good starter: Ukrainian barszcz (£4.50) is a rich, beetrooty affair. 2003, Charles Campion, The rough guide to London restaurants:

Forms

Synonyms

beetrootish