color up en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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To blush (to go red).
Alice had already begun to colour up and was beginning to speak, when her Ladyship perceiving her displeasure, continued thus.
1790, Jane Austen, “Jack and Alice”, in Juvenilia:
- To exchange a high number of low-value chips (of one color) for a lower number of higher value (of a different color), but keeping the same overall value.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| colour up | alternative | lexicographic | |
| colors up | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| coloring up | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| colored up | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| colored up | Tense=Past | lexicographic |