yellowy

Y4E1L1L1O1W4Y4
US/ˈjɛloʊ.i/

adjective

Somewhat yellow; yellowish.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveyellowy (comparative yellowier, superlative yellowiest)

comparative yellowier · superlative yellowiest

  1. Somewhat yellow; yellowish.

    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
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    […] 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

    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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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰelh₃-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰelh₃wós
  3. Proto-Germanic*gelwaz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*gelu
  5. Old Englishġeolu
  6. Middle Englishyelow
  7. Englishyellow
  8. Englishyellowy

From yellow + -y.

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