Beyellowed
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Covered or tinted with yellow colour.
"The waggoner hearing this piteous appeal come out of the casier, jumped off the horse much frightened, and called the servants and his master, and they opened the casier, and found the poor prisoner all smeared and be-yellowed with eggs, cheese, milk, and more than a hundred other things, indeed it would have been hard to say which there was most of, — in such a pitiable condition was the poor lover."
Example
More examples"The waggoner hearing this piteous appeal come out of the casier, jumped off the horse much frightened, and called the servants and his master, and they opened the casier, and found the poor prisoner all smeared and be-yellowed with eggs, cheese, milk, and more than a hundred other things, indeed it would have been hard to say which there was most of, — in such a pitiable condition was the poor lover."
Etymology
From be- (“at, on, upon”) + yellow + -ed.
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