beetrooty

English

Etymology

beetroot +‎ -y

Adjective

beetrooty (comparative more beetrooty, superlative most beetrooty)

1. Resembling or characteristic of beetroot in colour, texture, etc.
   • 1859, Charles Allston Collins, “Our Eye-Witness and the Performing Bull”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round:

     "She's coming out," screamed the smallest boy, with the whitest face, the most beetrooty nose, the thinnest blouse, and the most precocious intellect ever seen or heard of.

   • 1862, James Hogg, Florence Marryat, editors, London Society:

     The exertion of walking in a tight dress over rough fields made her momentarily more beetrooty.

   • 1961, Boris Lavrenev, Margaret Wettlin, N Jochel, The Forty First:

     Swelling up with a beetrooty apoplectic rage, the Councillor seized the white silk chair and, swinging it by the arms, banged it violently against the floor […]

2. Containing beetroot.
   • 2003, Charles Campion, The rough guide to London restaurants:

     The soup makes a good starter: Ukrainian barszcz (£4.50) is a rich, beetrooty affair.

   • 2006, Kate Lyons, The Corner of Your Eye:

     Innocent, sandy, smiling, smelling of clove cigarettes and beetrooty hamburgers and a faraway sea.