greenery-yallery

comparative more greenery-yallery · superlative most greenery-yallery

1. Pertaining to the colors green and yellow as used in the style of late-nineteenth-century Aestheticism; hence, typical of Aestheticism; affected.First known use 19th c.

   A greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, / Foot-in-the-grave young man.

   1881, WS Gilbert, Patience

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   Nothing greenery-yallery about her. So gay, so correct, so unaffected.

   1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

   [T]he Abu Dhabi TV show Sha’ir al-Maliyun, ‘Millionaire Poet’ […] is more than some greenery-yallery eisteddfod: in a land where rulers attack their enemies with odes, poetry is still portentous and powerful.

   2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 106