| 单词 | dunduckety mud colour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdunduckety mud colour Designating a drab nondescript colour, esp. a dull brown resembling the colour of mud; of such a colour. Frequently in dunduckety mud colour. Cf. duckety adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > dull coloured wannish?a1412 colourless1557 sullena1586 sober1603 dingy1665 dunduckety1818 duckety1841 drabbish1842 neutral-tinted1844 drabby1862 drab1880 drably-tinted1891 terne1901 1818 Lady Morgan Let. 26 Aug. in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 29 A colour I have supplied her with (not from the rainbow), dun-ducketty mud colour. 1854 J. Henry Half Year's Poems 79 My once glossy black hat's turned dunduckety brown. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 420 It is better than all white, or dunduckety mud-colour paint. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 317 Bloom was talking and talking with John Wyse and he quite excited with his dunducketymudcoloured mug on him and his old plumeyes rolling about. 1936 Observer 12 Jan. 23/2 Good riddance to the Dunducketty mud-colours. 1999 R. Welch Blue Formica Table xv. 32 The school railings In their dunducketty grey were clear against the sky. < as lemmas |
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