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yellowishly en · ADV

Etymology

From yellowish + -ly.

Meanings

1. With a colour resembling yellow.
   • Ploughman silently studied the two men for a moment or two longer, then smiled yellowishly, opened a desk drawer, and brought out a bottle of Gordon's gin. 2004, Ross Thomas, Chinaman's Chance, →ISBN, page 209:
   • The skin becomes thinned and yellowishly discoloured at one point, gives way, and a large quantity of thick creamy pus escapes. 1873, John Soelberg Wells, A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye, Lindsay & Blakiston, page 750:
   • . . . a sky with every fading colour: blue-green, pale grey between green and blue, fuzzy hues of distant clouds that aren't clouds, yellowishly darkened by an expiring red. 2002, Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet, →ISBN, page 196:

Forms

Translations (1)

hu sárgásan (with a colour resembling yellow)