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greenish, a.|ˈgriːnɪʃ|
[f. green a. + -ish.]
Somewhat green.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 557 Suche a smoke gan out wende..Blak bloo grenyssh, swart rede. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. xix. (1495) 875 Melancoly: that is blacke by meane of vnkynde Colera: that is rusty and grenysshe: and is founde grene. 1530Palsgr. 314/2 Grenysshe, verdastre. c1580J. Jeffere Bugbears iv. iii. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. (1897), The flame that it gave was greenish, pale, and dimme. 1626Bacon Sylva §512 There is a Greenish Prime-Rose, but it is Pale, and scarce a Greene. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 91 A wild Oat, while 'tis yet greenish. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 6 May, Her eyes are not grey, but greenish, like those of a cat. 1872Huxley Physiol. ix. 221 When the eye is turned aside to the white paper a greenish spot will appear.
b. Comb., qualifying adjs. or ns. of colour.
1644Evelyn Diary 21 Nov., It was transparent, of a greenish yellow. a1691Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 223 The filings exposed to the air, changed colour, and became a greenish blew. 1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 385 Bloss[oms] greenish white. 1803Chenevix in Phil. Trans. XCIII. 296 The supernatant liquor of the precipitate..is sometimes of a fine greenish-blue. 1879O. N. Rood Chromatics x. 141 The greenish-grey tints of the mosses.
Hence ˈgreenishness, greenish quality.
1727in Bailey vol. II. 1865 Intell. Observ. No. 40. 277 A certain greenishness. |