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carroty en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From carrot + -y.

Meanings

  1. Resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape, etc.
    • I think that the freshly cut or broken surface smells carrotier. Frida likes carrots OK, but really loves them cut (or the peels from the occasional carrot I eat). 1998 September 18, PeteAlway, “Re Carrots”, in alt.pets.rabbits (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Aug 2026:
    • The pupil, thus affectionately invoked, at length came stumbling into the room; a queer, shambling, ill-made urchin, who, by his stunted growth, seemed about twelve or thirteen years years^([sic]) old, though he was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a freckled sun-burnt visage, with a snub nose, a long chin, and two peery grey eyes, […] 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 239:
    • "All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer. 1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter VIII, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book V, page 101:
  2. Containing carrots; made of carrots.
    • My soup has the positive constitutive property of being carroty, of having carrots in it; of carrotiness; it has the negative constitutive property of lacking meat, of meatlessness. 1998, George Englebretsen, Line Diagrams for Logic: Drawing Conclusions:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
carrotier Degree=Cmp lexicographic
carrotiest Degree=Sup lexicographic
carrotty alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

carrotiness

Synonyms

carrotish

Translations (7)

ru морко́вный (resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape, etc.) · pl marchewkowy (containing carrots; made of carrots) · ru морко́вный (containing carrots; made of carrots) · pl rudawy (resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape, etc.) · pl marchewkowy (resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape, etc.) · pl marchwiowy (containing carrots; made of carrots) · ru морковеподо́бный (resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape, etc.)