Jeansy

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of jeans. informal

    "What would be a lovely bank of white and pink roses just north of Mallett's are so laden with dust from the grist-mill road that the white roses look a rusty yellow, pink ones a jeansy brown."

  2. 2
    Wearing jeans. informal

    "Along the yellow, frozen bank, twenty-five or thirty feet high, with its narrow sloping beach to the water, a jeansy string of rustics are squatting on their haunches, absorbing all the sunshine they can, and watching the dragging operations with stolid faces."

Synonyms

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Example

More examples

"What would be a lovely bank of white and pink roses just north of Mallett's are so laden with dust from the grist-mill road that the white roses look a rusty yellow, pink ones a jeansy brown."

Etymology

From jeans + -y.

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