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showed colour

showed colour is the simple past of show colour.

Meaning of show colour

Verb

show colour (third-person singular simple present shows colour, present participle showing colour, simple past showed colour, past participle shown colour)

  1. (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial, idiomatic) To get angry, to scowl.
    • Do not show colour to me!

Questions about showed colour

What is showed colour the simple past of?
Showed colour is the simple past of show colour.

Words near showed colour in the dictionary

  1. showed a leg
  2. showed ankle
  3. showed around
  4. showed away
  5. showed cause
  6. showed colour
  7. showed down
  8. showed forth
  9. showed in
  10. showed off
  11. showed one's age

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Adapted from Wiktionary: showed colour (page history and authors); show colour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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