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whity, whitey, a. (adv.)|ˈhwaɪtɪ|
Also 6 whitty.
[f. white a. + -y1 2.]
= whitish.
1593Queen Elizabeth Boeth. ii. met. iii. 26 Whan ϕebus.. the light to spred begins, The star dimed..Pales her whitty lookes. 1862C. P. Smyth Three Cities in Russia II. 139 Lofty rooms of a whity style of decoration. 1897J. Hocking Birthright xiii, She fixed her whitey, shining eyes upon me.
b. esp. (quasi-adv.) with other adjs. (or adj. with ns.) of colour. See also whity-brown.
1856De Quincey Confess. Wks. 1862 I. 139 The insipid whity-grey bread of towns. 1879E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis (1882) I. 311 The Shah's yacht..is painted of a dirty whity-yellow colour. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 575 A great sedum, with a grand head of whity-pink flower. |