lettucey

comparative more lettucey · superlative most lettucey · alternative lettucy

1. Resembling or characteristic of lettuce.

   She read a bit in some evening paper about proper dieting, and she's gone all lettucey.

   1937, Georgette Heyer, The unfinished clue, page 6

   2 more examples

   The flowers and weeds around him have coarsened with new growth, and the trees have a fresh lettucey look — how absurd, how delightful that growth should continue even in the month of December.

   1987, Carol Shields, Swann: a mystery, page 118

   The leaves were a gentle, lettucey green, and Calder found himself thinking it would be easy, if you wanted to murder someone, to mix a few in with a salad.

   2010, Blue Balliett, Brett Helquist, The Calder Game, page 68

   Synonyms: lettucelike