Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bright orange in color.
- adjective Having red hair; carrot-topped.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a carrot in color: an epithet given to yellowish or reddish hair.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling
carrots in colour, taste, etc.; containing carrot.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling the bright orange of the root of the carrot plant
Etymologies
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Examples
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I meant to tell you, Jemimah Sandwich said a couple of the latest bunch even tried to tint their hair red—came out a kind of awful carroty orange.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Why in the deuce was she not carroty-haired, or cross-eyed, or hare-lipped?
Chapter 13 2010
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I was particularly proud of my inky eyelashes and darker brows, happy to have escaped that carroty look so many redheads have.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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I meant to tell you, Jemimah Sandwich said a couple of the latest bunch even tried to tint their hair red—came out a kind of awful carroty orange.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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I was particularly proud of my inky eyelashes and darker brows, happy to have escaped that carroty look so many redheads have.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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I like to grow varieties of the Nantes type, which reach deep into the cultivated soil and strike a perfect balance between sweet and carroty, even as they reach maturity.
Groundwork: Rooting to the last Adrian Higgins 2010
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His carroty hair and beard were all natural, his name was honestly Patrick, and so for her love, he learned to talk with a brogue.
Of Rainbows and Pots 2010
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More carroty goodness tomorrow though, as I begin to massacre the haul!
Archive 2008-09-01 Sarah 2008
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I love the round cake where they're all sitting in a circle, like evil baby geniuses planning world domination in a carroty hot tub.
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Throw in carroty hair and a face full of freckles, and she was a Raggedy Ann to her mothers Barbie doll.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word carroty
(adjective) - (1) Annoyed, angry, after a scolding or a mishap. Quick temper is supposed to go with red hair.
--Edward Gepp's Essex Dialect Dictionary, 1923
(2) Spoken of red hair on account of its resemblance in colour to carrots.
--Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
(3) A shock of untidy carroty hair . . .
--W.S. Maugham's Creatures of Circumstance, 1947
January 21, 2018