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lettucey en · ADJ

Etymology

From lettuce + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of lettuce.
   • The flowers and weeds around him have coarsened with new growth, and the trees have a fresh lettucey look — how absurd, how delightful that growth should continue even in the month of December. 1987, Carol Shields, Swann: a mystery, page 118:
   • The leaves were a gentle, lettucey green, and Calder found himself thinking it would be easy, if you wanted to murder someone, to mix a few in with a salad. 2010, Blue Balliett, Brett Helquist, The Calder Game, page 68:
   • She read a bit in some evening paper about proper dieting, and she's gone all lettucey. 1937, Georgette Heyer, The unfinished clue, page 6:

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Synonyms

lettucelike