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shown colour

shown colour is the past participle 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 shown colour

What is shown colour the past participle of?
Shown colour is the past participle of show colour.

Words near shown colour in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shown 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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