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carrotty

carrotty is the alternative form of carroty.

Meaning of carroty

Adjective

carroty (comparative carrotier, superlative carrotiest)

  1. Resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape, etc.
    • 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 years^([sic]) old, though he was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a...1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    carrotish
  2. Containing carrots; made of carrots.
    • 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.1998, George Englebretsen, Line Diagrams for Logic: Drawing Conclusions

Forms of carrotty

comparativemore carrotty
superlativemost carrotty

Questions about carrotty

What is carrotty the alternative form of?
Carrotty is the alternative form of carroty.

Words near carrotty in the dictionary

  1. carrots and sticks
  2. carrots-and-sticks
  3. carrottop
  4. carrottopped
  5. carrottops
  6. carrotty
  7. carrotweed
  8. carrotweeds
  9. carrotwood
  10. carrotwoods
  11. carroty

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