beyellowed
/bɪˈjɛləʊd/
beyellowed adjective: covered or tinted with yellow colour.
Adjective
beyellowed (comparative more beyellowed, superlative most beyellowed)
- Covered or tinted with yellow colour.
- The waggoner hearing this piteous appeal come out of the casier, jumped off the horse much frightened, and called the servants and his master, and they opened the casier, and found the poor prisoner all smeared and be-yellowed with eggs, cheese, milk, and more than a hundred other things, indeed it...1899, One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories
- Now on my right there was nothing but marshes for miles, right away to Birchington in Thanet; and butter-cup-beyellowed marshes they were, dotted with sheep and threaded with innumerable waterways, and with, oh, such a big, big sky outstretched above them […]1924, Jessie Mothersole, The Saxon Shore, page 85
Forms of beyellowed
| comparative | more beyellowed |
|---|---|
| superlative | most beyellowed |
| alternative form | be-yellowed |
Origin of beyellowed
From be- (“at, on, upon”) + yellow + -ed.
Questions about beyellowed
- What does beyellowed mean?
- Beyellowed means covered or tinted with yellow colour.
- What part of speech is beyellowed?
- Beyellowed is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce beyellowed?
- Beyellowed is pronounced /bɪˈjɛləʊd/.
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