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yellowy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈjɛloʊ.i/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wós Proto-Germanic *gelwaz Proto-West Germanic *gelu Old English ġeolu Middle English yelow English yellow English -y English yellowy From yellow + -y.

Meanings

1. Somewhat yellow; yellowish.
   • […] the worn-out antiquity of Sulaco, so characteristic with its stuccoed houses and barred windows, with the great yellowy-white walls of abandoned convents behind the rows of sombre green cypresses […] 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part 1, Chapter Eight:
   • Let the daisy, yellow-hearted, With its white leaves starry-parted, And the cowslips, yellowy pale, Serve her as a flowery veil— 1816, John Hamilton Reynolds, “The Fairies”, in The Naiad: a Tale, with Other Poems, London: Taylor & Hessey, page 62:
   • I start the truck, drive west along the highway built on the dry bed of the Teays. There’s wide bottoms, and the hills on either side have yellowy billows the sun can’t burn off. 1977, Breece D’J Pancake, “Trilobites”, in The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, page 24:

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