| 单词 | carrot-topped |
| 释义 | > as lemmascarrot-topped carrot-topped adj. colloquial (usu. depreciative) red-haired (cf. sense 3, carroty adj.). ΚΠ 1856 M. J. Holmes Homestead (1871) i. xii. 99 You spalpeen, is it because my skin ain't a dingy yaller and all freckled like yourn? Lord, look at your carrot-topped cocoanut. 1879 Janesville (Wisconsin) Gaz. 20 Mar. She routed..his carrot-topped spouse out of the house. 1960 P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves in Offing xi. 118 I know if anyone called me a carrot-topped Jezebel, umbrage is the first thing I'd take. 2010 N.Y. Mag. 15 Mar. 32/1 Now he's..hiding behind that long red hair, thinking perhaps I'd mistake a similarly carrot-topped woman sitting nearby for him. < as lemmas |
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