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showing colour

showing colour is the present participle and gerund 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 showing colour

What is showing colour the present participle and gerund of?
Showing colour is the present participle and gerund of show colour.

Words near showing colour in the dictionary

  1. showing a leg
  2. showing ankle
  3. showing around
  4. showing away
  5. showing cause
  6. showing colour
  7. showing down
  8. showing finger
  9. showing fingers
  10. showing forth
  11. showing in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: showing 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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