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yellowish

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From Middle English ȝelowisch; equivalent to yellow +‎ -ish.

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yellowish (not comparable)

  1. Somewhat yellow (in colour).
    • 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, pages 18-19:
      But, like more than one similar North Wales beauty-spot, there had to be (at least at the time of which I write), a quarry, or ironworks, or some kind of industrial plant, which lay perpetually under a cloud of yellowish smoke—literally a blot on the landscape.

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