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shows colour

shows colour is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 shows colour

What is shows colour the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shows colour is the third-person singular simple present indicative of show colour.

Words near shows colour in the dictionary

  1. shows a leg
  2. shows ankle
  3. shows around
  4. shows away
  5. shows cause
  6. shows colour
  7. shows down
  8. shows forth
  9. shows in
  10. shows of force
  11. shows of hands

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shows 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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