carroty

comparative carrotier · superlative carrotiest · alternative carrotty

1. Resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape, etc.

   "All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.

   1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter VIII, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book V, page 101

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   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 years^([sic]) old, though he was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a freckled sun-burnt visage, with a snub nose, a long chin, and two peery grey eyes, […]

   1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 239

   I think that the freshly cut or broken surface smells carrotier. Frida likes carrots OK, but really loves them cut (or the peels from the occasional carrot I eat).

   1998 September 18, PeteAlway, “Re Carrots”, in alt.pets.rabbits (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Aug 2026

   Synonyms: carrotish

2. Containing carrots; made of carrots.

   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.

   1998, George Englebretsen, Line Diagrams for Logic: Drawing Conclusions