carroty
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]carroty (comparative more carroty, superlative most carroty)
- Resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape etc.
- Synonym: carrotish
- 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
- 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 old, though he was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a freckled, sunburnt visage, with a snub nose, a long chin, and two peery grey eyes […]
- 1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter VIII, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book V, page 101:
- "All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.
- Containing carrots; made of carrots.
- 1998, George Englebretsen, Line Diagrams for Logic: Drawing Conclusions:
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]resembling carrots in colour, taste, etc.
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containing carrots; made of carrots
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