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scared green

scared green adjective: extremely scared; terrified.

Adjective

scared green (comparative more scared green, superlative most scared green)

  1. (dated, idiomatic) Extremely scared; terrified.
    • "It's damn decent. I'm sorry I was so suspicious. I was scared green when I first saw you."1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, page 385
    • By this time I realized what the real difficulty was: the company was scared green that we were going to blame the accident on their instrument.1988, Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →OCLC, page 165

Synonyms of scared green

Forms of scared green

comparativemore scared green
superlativemost scared green

Questions about scared green

What does scared green mean?
Scared green means extremely scared; terrified.
What part of speech is scared green?
Scared green is an adjective.

Words near scared green in the dictionary

  1. scarecrowlike
  2. scarecrows
  3. scarecrowy
  4. scared
  5. scared away
  6. scared green
  7. scared into
  8. scared off
  9. scared pink
  10. scared red
  11. scared shirtless

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