Carroty
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape, etc.
"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, […]"
- 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."
- 1 resembling the bright orange of the root of the carrot plant wordnet
Example
More examples"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, […]"
Etymology
From carrot + -y.
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