carroty

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Etymology

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From carrot +‎ -y.

Adjective

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carroty (comparative more carroty, superlative most carroty)

  1. Resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape etc.
    Synonym: carrotish
    • 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. [], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: [] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, []; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
      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 old, though he was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a freckled, sunburnt visage, with a snub nose, a long chin, and two peery grey eyes []
    • 1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter VIII, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. [], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, [], →OCLC, book V, page 101:
      "All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.
  2. Containing carrots; made of carrots.
    • 1998, George Englebretsen, Line Diagrams for Logic: Drawing Conclusions:
      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.

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