rosyadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈrəʊzi/, U.S.

/ˈroʊzi/

Forms: Middle English roosy, Middle English rosi, Middle English rosye, Middle English– rosy, 1500s roasie, 1500s rossy, 1500s–1800s rosie, 1700s– rosey; English regional 1800s– rooasy (Lancashire), 1800s– rwosy (Cumberland).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rose n.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < rose n.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare Middle Dutch rosich (1391–1410; Dutch rozig ), Old High German rōsag (11th cent.; Middle High German rōsic , German rosig ), all in sense ‘rose-coloured, rose-red’. Compare earlier rosen adj.The Old English form roseum (dative singular neuter: see the variant reading cited in quot. lOE at rosen adj. 2) has been taken as evidence for an otherwise unattested Old English *rōsig ; however, it is probably simply a transmission error for rosenum , dative singular neuter of rōsen rosen adj.

A. adj.

a. Having or being the colour of a light crimson or pink rose; rose-red.In early use frequently in figurative context, esp. of the dawn.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > rose-red or -pink

rosenOE

rose-redOE

rosy1381

rosat?c1425

roseate1449

rosy-redc1450

rosetc1500

rosing?a1505

rose-coloured1526

rose-like1530

roseal1531

rosal1566

rosy-fingered1590

red rose1591

rosy-coloured1597

carnation1598

damask1598

rosied1600

damasked1609

rosical1631

roseac1638

rose1667

bloom-coloured1678

rose pink1778

rosaceous1783

rose-tinted1804

rose1806

rose1832

rose du Barry1856

blush-rose1888

1381 Diuersa Servicia in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 70 (MED) For to make rosee: tak þe flowrys of rosys..& do þereto sugur & safroun þat yt be wel ycolowrd & rosy of leuys & of þe forseyde flowrys.

a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 1755 That Phebus mot his rosy day [c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 rosi day; c1450 Harl. 2280 rosy carte] forth brynge.

c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 123 (MED) Phebus with his chare of golde The rosye day haþ in his gouernaunce.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. ix. l. 2 Hir rosy charyot the fresch Aurora..Begouth fortil vproll.

1598 G. Chapman in C. Marlowe & G. Chapman Hero & Leander (new ed.) v. 45 The downless rosy faces Of youths and maids.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 410 This spirit..blesseth all partes with ioy and iolitie and dies them with a Rosie colour.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 175 For see the Morn..begins Her rosie progress smiling.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. vii. 239 Alcinous gave the sign And bad the herald pour the rosy wine.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 495 The lark is gay, That dries his feathers..Beneath the rosy cloud.

1823 F. Clissold Narr. Ascent Mont Blanc 23 The western arc of the misty circle kindled, from a rosy to a deep reddening glow.

1845 Beck's Florist 198 The dark crimson feathered upper petals..contrast prettily with the white centre and rosy under petals.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 309 Wreaths sat on each hoar crown, Whose snows flush'd rosy beneath them.

1925 Cent. Mag. Jan. 412/2 I love San Juan—the old part, with its steep step streets, its ancient walls of yellow, rosy masonry.

1955 O. Manning Doves of Venus i. i. 4 The rosy cameo of chimneys..billowed smoke wreaths, glowing, massive, majestical as the smoke of hell.

1975 X. Herbert Poor Fellow my Country 467 He..made up a little fire..nibbling the thin rosy flesh of quondongs and spitting out their great pitted seeds.

1998 R. Stone Damascus Gate iii. xliii. 386 The church and adjoining monastery were the rosy color of Jerusalem stone but they did not seem very old.

b. Designating a person, the face, the lips, etc., esp. as indicative of good health.to be rosy about the gills: see gill n.¹ 2a.

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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [adjective] > with health

rosyc1450

browzy1719

ruddy1727

red-blooded1876

c1450 in Mod. Philol. (1924) 21 395 Her fresshe chekys rosy in mesure.

c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) l. 213 See how I syt dyscheuele on kne... My rosy lyppes, so how they persyd be.

1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS f. 234 My rosy lippis ar woxin paill and blay.

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. D2 Her lillie hand, her rosie cheeke lies vnder.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 121 That sweet Rosie Lad.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 258 She held my hand,..Then from her rosie Lips began to speak.

1736 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 454/1 Dear Doctor, answered the Dean; you look well and rosy, your Colour is fresh.

1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 165 The carriage he was often pleased to fill with tired and rosy vintagers.

1874 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics 343 It is an every-day occurrence to see pale, anaemic patients become, whilst taking it, rosy and plethoric.

1925 Amer. Mercury May 22/2 A rosy old capitalist of sixty-odd, just back from the oil fields at Tampico.

1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side i. 22 Crease-faced or rosy, shaggy or bald, faded or florid,..one by one they came through the door.

1988 M. Brooks Paradise Café & Other Stories 57 She's seventy-five, short, rosy and healthy.

2002 S. Turow Reversible Errors (2003) 4 Pamela, with rosy good looks fit for TV news, flashed a bright coast-to-coast grin.

c. Red-coloured as a result of blushing or embarrassment; blushing.

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the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > blushing with shame or modesty > [adjective]

rosy1593

blushing1609

blushful1611

blushy1865

red-faced2002

the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [adjective] > with blushing

ruddyc1225

redc1275

flecked1544

rosy1593

scarlet1597

flush1619

flushed1690

mantling1690

overflushed1712

erubescent1736

aflush?1850

1593 A. Chute Beawtie Dishonoured 27 Behold how in her wanton fayre, Rosie Pallantias (new stolne from her bed) Blusheth her glorie on the morning ayre, In bashfull decensie of vermillion red.

1615 T. Tomkis Albumazar i. i. sig. B2^v Thou know'st my Rosy modesty cannot do it.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. v. 11 She..pray'd me oft forbearance: did it with A pudencie so Rosie [etc.] .

1736 R. Erskine Paraphr. Song of Solomon 129 Thou modest hid'st thy rosy Cheeks, When Sins with Shame 'em flush.

1781 W. Cowper Anti-Thelypthora 87 She..turn'd her rosy cheek away.

1837 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 271 She ceased, and buried into her mantle's folds Her rosy cheek, relapsing into shame.

1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 10 Due return of blushing ‘Good Night’, rosy as a borne-off bride's.

1918 Overland Monthly May 408/1 The laughter that greeted his rosy countenance started off an evening of merriment that ended only with the midnight's coming.

1972 K. E. Woodiwiss Flame & Flower v. 201 She murmured an obedient answer, keeping her gaze fixed on her plate, and her cheeks took on a rosy hue.

2008 V. Kantra in Shifter 280 ‘Oh!’ She pressed her palms to suddenly rosy cheeks. ‘I cannot believe I am discussing undergarments with you.’

d. slang. Red-faced through drink; drunk; tipsy; (also) characterized by drunkenness.

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > partially drunk

merrya1382

semi-bousyc1460

pipe merry1542

totty1570

tipsy1577

martin-drunk1592

pleasant1596

mellow1611

tip-merry1612

flustered1615

lusticka1616

well to live1619

jolly1652

happy1662

hazy1673

top-heavy1687

hearty1695

half-seas-over1699

oiled1701

mellowish1703

half channelled over1709

drunkish1710

half-and-half1718

touched1722

uppisha1726

tosie1727

bosky1730

funny1751

fairish1756

cherry-merry1769

in suds1770

muddy1776

glorious1790

groggified1796

well-corned1800

fresh1804

to be mops and brooms1814

foggy1816

how-come-ye-so1816

screwy1820

off the nail1821

on (also, esp. in early use, upon) the go1821

swipey1821

muggy1822

rosy1823

snuffy1823

spreeish1825

elevated1827

up a stump1829

half-cockedc1830

tightish1830

tipsified1830

half shaved1834

screwed1837

half-shot1838

squizzed1845

drinky1846

a sheet in the wind1862

tight1868

toppy1885

tiddly1905

oiled-up1918

bonkers1943

sloshed1946

tiddled1956

hickey-

1823 London Mag. Apr. 386/2 There were still higher powers, even guagers [sic] and supervisors, who had been equally open to the seductions of the ‘rosy god’.

1871 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 308 The tall, rosy Hauptmann, who had become more rosy still from the claret.

1871 Baily's Monthly Mag. Sept. 360 We spend the rosy hours in such a very rosy way that the moralities of ‘the Queen,’ there is no doubt, suffer a sever strain.

1880 J. E. Wessely & A. Gironés New Pocket Dict. Eng. & Spanish Langs. (stereotype ed. 6) 14/1 To rejoice; to grow merry and rosy by drinking.

1931 Princeton Alumni Weekly 22 May 798/1 When ‘the lid is off’ one gets ‘rosy’,..and maybe ‘passes out’.

1980 M. McMullen My Cousin Death (1981) xvi. 187 He's just a little rosy..not over the edge at all.

†e. English regional. Of poultry: healthy. Obsolete. rare.

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1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. 551 When the combs of hens look red and healthy, and they commence laying, fowls are said to be rosy.

2. Decorated or covered with roses; composed of roses; (in later use also) designating a rose-coloured pattern on porcelain, fabric, etc. Also figurative. Frequently poetic.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [adjective] > of or relating to roses > abounding in or made of roses

rosenOE

rosetc1450

rosy1508

roseal1577

roseate1607

1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 185 The rosy garth, depaynt and redolent..Arayed was by dame Flora, the quene.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B8 A Rosy girlond was the victors meede.

1637 R. Monro Pract. Observ. in Exped. Scots Regim. iv. ii. 194 As this life is Rosie, so it hath flowers mixed with thornes.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 27 His rosie Wreath was dropt not long before.

1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. v. 2 What youth, the rosy bower beneath, Now courts thee to be kind?

1771 E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton II. 271 I could again be weak enough..to reassume those rosy fetters.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 156 The rosy May, though fashionably a winter month, led on the smiling summer of nature, and June..was fast approaching.

1877 Irish Monthly 5 121 Something more than the soft summer breeze is moving the rosy bower now.

1940 Kingston (N.Y.) Daily Freeman 19 Dec. 18/4 (advt.) Free—1 Rosy Pattern Glass with each pound.

2008 Guardian (Nexis) 7 July 25 Some of his admirers regretted the day when seething rage and resentment overtook his devotion to rosy bowers and shady lanes and windflowers wet with dew.

3. Resembling a rose in some way other than in colour; esp. sweet-smelling or fragrant as a rose, rose-scented. Also figurative.

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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [adjective] > smelling of specific things

rosat?c1425

rosetc1450

rosed1559

musked1576

musky1580

rosya1586

myrrhed1591

muskifiedc1600

roseal1601

olibian1605

roseate1611

honeysuckled1640

myrrhate1659

muscatelline1673

myrrhy1686

muskish1706

thymy1746

rose-scented1759

civeted1785

lily-scented1796

ottoed1810

citron-scented1817

camphory1826

camphoraceous1845

tea-scented1845

frankincensed1860

rose-like1866

sagey1871

camphorous1881

osier-odoured1881

lemony1894

lavendery1896

patchoulied1925

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. i. sig. Ii7^v Did not a rosed breath, from lips more rosie proceeding, Say [etc.].

1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes xcvii, in Wks. I. 798 His cloke with orient veluet quite lin'd through, His rosie tyes and garters so ore-blowne.

1686 A. Behn tr. B. de Bonnecorse La Montre 208 If thou bear'st her Rosie Breath from thence, 'Tis Incense of that Excellence.

1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination ii. 168 That name indeed Becomes the rosy breath of love.

1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 8 Whereat the star of Lethe not delay'd His rosy eloquence.

1888 Good Housek. 17 Mar. 235/2 Its similarity of odor rendering it of great value to the perfumer, especially in compounds requiring a rosy fragrance where the finer shading of the rose itself would be lost.

1935 T. Wolfe Of Time & River i. iv. 36 His face, which had the satiny rosy texture, veinous and tender, that alcoholism and a daily massage can give, was brutally coarse and sensual.

1988 U. Holden Unicorn Sisters ii. 21 My face cream was like a talisman, smelling a little like Mamma's rosy scent.

2008 K. Johnson Second Generation xxx. 389 The guard admired her cleavage and drank in the rosy fragrance of her perfume.

4. figurative.

a. Of an event, circumstance, etc.: that brings happiness, enjoyable, bright; (also) promising good fortune or happiness, hopeful; (over-)optimistic (cf. rose-coloured adj. 3, rose-tinted adj. Phrases).

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > promise, ground of hope > [adjective] > of circumstances: propitious

trine1477

towardly1520

bright1592

ominous1593

dexter1646

rosy1685

dextral1774

fairc1820

toward1850

1685 T. D'Urfey Scotch Hay-makers 1/1 In the rosie time o' th' Year, when the Grass was down.

1775 R. B. Sheridan Songs Duenna i. 1 Her rosy slumbers shall not fly.

1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 14 As though in Cupid's college she had spent Sweet days.., And kept his rosy terms.

1874 L. Morris To Child of Fancy ii My little dove,..Who through the laughing summer day Spendest the rosy hours in play.

1887 H. Smart Cleverly Won ix To be purposely knocked over when his chance of winning looked rosy, would be too provoking.

1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn vi. 75 Life was a rosy ringing valiant pursuit.

1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 57 The French girl went back to France and tell she sister how things rosy in Brit'n, and the sister come.

1990 H. Rosovsky Univ. Owner's Man. xvi. 289 Could these sins of omission account for the rosy tint of the presentation?

2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 30 Oct. viii. 13/1 The manufacturer projects rosy sales.

2006 Independent 13 June 8/5 It's a shame, but things haven't been rosy of late.

b. Of temperament: optimistic, cheerful.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > optimism > [adjective]

brighta1413

piousa1640

rosy-coloured1777

optimistical1834

optimizing1836

optimistic1849

rosy1859

optimist1860

1859 Harper's Mag. May 852/1 Fun is a great thing. It smooths the rough places of life, makes the disposition fresh and rosy.

1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 78 My companion, in a rosier temper, listened with great satisfaction to my Jeremiads.

1918 R. Pertwee Our Wonderful Selves (1919) ii. 103 He had thought to spend the evening considering his future, but in his rosy mood he decided a theatre would prove a more agreeable form of entertainment.

1953 Pop. Sci. May 130/1 He is a rangy Californian named Frank Kurtis, and the reason for his rosy mood is a new sports car.

1991 W. E. Bezanson in H. Melville Clarel App. 557 One is Derwent, a Broad-Church Anglican clergyman of rosy temperament untroubled by the modern dilemma—his motto: ‘All turns or alters for the best’.

2002 C. Skye My Spy xxix. 218 Only one unpleasant sight spoiled her rosy mood.

B. n.

†1.

a. colloquial. With definite article. Red wine. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > [noun]

wine805

juicea1387

shrab1477

Bacchus1508

the spirit (also sprite) of the buttery1530

Lyaeus1602

vintage1604

Septembral juice (or liquor)1609

grape1636

cellar physic1697

rosy1840

pluck1904

pinard1917

vino1919

1840 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop vii, in Master Humphrey's Clock 1 117 Richard Swiveller finished the rosy and applied himself to the composition of another glassful.

1850 J. O. Terry Poems 25 Then pass round the rosy, And let us be cozy.

1884 Current 9 Feb. 123/2 He [sc. Mr. Richard Swiveler]..was also more fond of passing and re-passing the ‘rosy’ than was consistent with any advancing occupation in life.

b. colloquial. With definite article. Blood. Obsolete. rare.

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1891 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 25 Mar. 7/3 Goddard was smothered in the rosy as he went to his chair, and Choynski bled at the mouth.

c. slang. A good time. Occasionally in to do the rosy: to have a good time. Obsolete. rare.

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1892 E. J. Milliken 'Arry Ballads 69/2 A doin' the rorty and rosy as lively as 'Opkins's lot.

1892 E. J. Milliken 'Arry Ballads 77 Not my idea of the rosy.

2. Nautical slang. A ship's rubbish bin.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > receptacle for refuse > in ship

rosy1937

1937 D. Marlowe Coming, Sir! ii. 46 I struggled with the heavy garbage bins, called ‘rosies’.

1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 97/2 The rosy, the Merchant Navy's gash bucket: a ‘rose by any other name’.

1986 T. Lane Grey Dawn Breaking v. 143 We used to employ on this ship somebody who would just take the scraps. You'd take the ‘rosey’ out to them after it was used.

Compounds

C1. Modifying adjectives and nouns.

a. With adjectives describing an action or condition, as rosy-blushing, rosy-glistening, rosy-rising, rosy-warm, etc.

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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 484 Heau'ns Rosie-blushing cheekes.

1758 H. Lee Sophron II. 465 That this rosy-rising ray in nature would guide our contemplations.

1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 175 Let it mantle rosy-warm With the tinge of love.

1865 St. James's Mag. 13 382 Under the shade of those hawthorns sweet, Jeanie, rosy-blushing and shy, Standeth near ‘some one’ smilingly, Yet a tear in her soft brown eye.

1901 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 697 Sometimes, more like Aphrodite than Hecate, she conies up all rosy warm.

1916 E. Blunden Pastorals 19 Nothing Eastern come to us Save the rosy-rising sun.

a1918 W. Owen Coll. Poems (1963) 127 The crunch of boots on blue snow rosy-glistening.

2006 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 6 Dec. a2 Let's face it: this time of year is either rosy-warm and cosy-happy or sad-lonesome and funky-blue.

b. With adjectives (and nouns) expressing colour or tone, as rosy-blue, rosy bright, rosy-crimson, rosy-gilt, rosy-golden, rosy-mauve, rosy-pale, rosy-purple, rosy-white, etc. Cf. rosy-red adj.

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1716 N. Rowe Ode for New Year vii. 6 On the balmy Air sits Rosie-colour'd Health.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 505 The racy wine,..By ten long years refin'd, and rosy-bright.

1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 220 One drop of tincture of galls gave a rosy purple colour to a wine-pint of this water.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 60 From the ground her foot Gleamed rosywhite.

1845 Beck's Florist 179 With large handsome foliage and..flowers of a pleasing rosy-crimson colour.

1862 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 10 Which, lightening o'er the body rosy-pale, Like shiver'd rubies dance.

1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. 68 His forehead was flower-white, his cheek rosy bright.

1894 Scribner's Mag. Feb. 200 Cattleya Trianae, with its rosy-mauve sepals and petals..is one of the best known orchids.

1925 V. Woolf Common Reader 115 The apples rosy-gilt in the afternoon sun.

1926 D. H. Lawrence Sun iii. 11 The child and she were now both tanned with a rosy-golden tan, all over.

1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 94 [Cattleya] Harrisoniana, light rosy-mauve, variable, summer, autumn.

1976 I. Murdoch Henry & Cato i. 3 Leaving New York in daylight, his plane had soon risen into a sort of radiant rosy-blue stratospheric gloom.

1978 N.Y. Mag. 3 Apr. 94/3 The terrine de poisson, a rosy-pale slice of fish pâté.

1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 139 The clusters or large, waxy, translucent, rich rosy-crimson, bell-shaped flowers are almost unbelievably beautiful.

1999 Church Times 11 June 11/1 The Judas tree..is now established, but..it will be a few years before we see its rich, rosy-purple pea-flowers on the bare stems.

c. In the names of moths, birds, and other animals. See also Compounds 3.

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1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 360 (table) Tinea... Salicis... The rosy Day-moth.

1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 257 The cones of pellucid rosy lilac, the Rosy Crumb Sponge.

1913 Wilson Bull. 25 131 The [faecal] sacs were full of the eggs of the rosy maple moth.

1959 Wilson Bull. 71 184 The humeri of two specimens of the Rosy-billed Pochard (Metopiana peposaca) of South America agree in all respects with those of the Anatinae.

1999 National Trust Mag. Autumn 63/1 The broom and tormentil make it an ideal breeding place for the rosy marbled moth.

2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Apr. 10/4 In Chile's turbulent ocean lives the rosy conger, a huge eel with flesh like snow.

d. Forming parasynthetic adjectives, describing a feature or characteristic.

rosy-bosomed adj.

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1637 J. Milton Comus 34 The Graces, and the rosie-bosom'd Howres.

1728 J. Thomson Spring 49 The rosy-bosom'd Spring To weeping Fancy pines.

1875 Overland Monthly Aug. 202/2 The lemon and the orange, with their fragrance-freighted flowers, Enfeoffed of heaven with golden fruit for the rosy-bosomed hours.

1992 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Jan. 12nj 14/1 Beside this is Fuertes's lithograph of a rosy-bosomed passenger pigeon, dated 1911—three years before the species was finished off by the sporting crowd.

rosy-cheeked adj.

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1597 T. Morley Canzonets to Fiue & Sixe Voices vi. sig. B 3^v Rosie check'd cristall ei'd eu'n weeping lightsome.

1633 Breton's Poste with Packet Madde Lett. (rev. ed.) i. 2 The beautifull lineaments of rosie cheekt Ladies.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. x. 69 He..ordered his daughter, a jolly rosy-cheeked damsel,..to bring us a bottle of his quadrimum.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 610 Foxhunting squires and their rosycheeked daughters.

1989 ‘C. Roman’ Foreplay vi. 74 The driver's an overweight rosy-cheeked Bible thumper.

rosy-crowned adj.

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1757 T. Gray Ode I i. iii, in Odes 6 The rosy-crowned Loves are seen On Cytherea's day.

1859 Russell's Mag. Sept. 559 Fair lingering token of rosy crowned Spring.

1992 G. Wuerthner Yellowstone 79 Typical animals are pika, yellow-bellied marmot, mountain goat, bighorn sheep, golden eagle, water pipit, and rosy-crowned finch.

rosy-faced adj.

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1772 Precipitate Choice II. xiv. 93 A rosy-faced country girl is my only attendant.

1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xvi. 246 There she was, nodding away at them like a rosy-faced mandarin.

1986 T. Mo Insular Possession xxx. 362 The rosy-faced bumpkins of Oxfordshire or Somerset, who shall drop as plentifully as the sere leaves of autumn.

rosy-featured adj.

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1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination ii. 634 O restore The rosy-featur'd maid.

1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West 370 An athletic, rosy-featured young man came running by the tent door with a pistol in his hand.

1998 Guardian (Nexis) 3 Aug. 7 The young man celebrating in the photograph has gentle eyes. His arms are round a rosy-featured old woman.

rosy-flowered adj.

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1818 R. Sweet Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis 80 (table) Œnothera..rosy-flowered.

1927 V. Woolf To Lighthouse i. vii. 60 A rosy-flowered fruit tree.

2006 R. H. Mohlenbrock This Land 207 The others in this zone are yellow violet, a rosy-flowered sandwort, and two kinds of tiny-leaved milk vetches.

rosy-gilled adj.

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1737 London Mag. Apr. 211/2 At the knock of the buttery-hatch, The rosy-gill'd chaplain comes down.

c1898 J. R. Lowell Poems 382 Neither were those plump, rosy-gilled Englishmen that came hither, but a hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race.

1990 E. K. Sedgwick Epistemol. Closet iv. 192 The rounded Pickwickian self-complacency of the rosy-gilled bachelor at breakfast is, then, all the more striking by contrast.

rosy-lipped adj.

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1781 J. Hoy Poems 43 Rosy-lipp'd Health, and virtuous calm Content.

1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 491 That mouth, so rosy-lipped, and so eloquent!

1895 Catholic World Aug. 629 She was blue-eyed and rosy-lipped, and had a delicate semi-transparent skin.

1998 Entertainm. Weekly 19 June 47 The title character of Mulan..is a rosy-lipped, almond-eyed young beauty in imperial China.

rosy-muzzled adj.

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1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 63 Violets, Pagan, rosy-muzzled violets.

a1933 R. W. Chambers Love & Lieutenant (1935) 173 That fat, rosy-muzzled pup, Wilkinson, remonstrated.

rosy-palmed adj.

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1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. i. 588 The day-spring's daughter, rosy palm'd.

1898 ‘H. Mathers’ Bam Wildfire i. viii. 100 Gregory softly took the rosy-palmed hand hanging by Bam's side in both his own.

1934 S. Beckett tr. R. Goffin in N. Cunard Negro 291 His rosy-palmed hand beats a tattoo on the table or seizes me by the arm or plays on the imaginary pistons of a fork.

rosy-petalled adj.

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1874 Garden 14 Feb. 136/1 C. longifolium flowers all the year round, the rosy-petalled flowers being borne one at a time on a ten or twelve-flowered spike.

1928 E. Blunden Retreat 44 This retinue Of rosy-petalled sauntering joys.

1995 J. Stallworthy Rounding Horn (1998) 228 And I woke, as poets say, ‘When rosy-petalled dawn had strewn the earth’.

rosy-rayed adj.

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1834 Gardener's Mag. Oct. 513 The stem..is divided, upwards, into slender branches, each tipped with a rosy-rayed head of flowers.

1925 E. Blunden Eng. Poems 90 Moon-pallid some [fish] come gliding through the green..Others like opals rosy-rayed convene.

2005 I. Onians tr. Dandin What Ten Young Men Did vii. 213 When the rosy-rayed sun rose again it was like a wildfire on the peaks of its eastern rising-mountain.

rosy-tainted adj.

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1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 10^v A rosy-taynted feature is heauens gold.

2003 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily Star (Nexis) 20 Feb. b5 It's time our news media take off their rosy-tainted Republican glasses and see clearly what is going on.

C2. General uses.

rosy apple n. (a) the description of the fruit used in various skipping formulas; (b) = knock down ginger n. at knock-down adj. and n. Additions.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun]

rosy apple1882

doctors and nurses (also patients)1906

doctor1918

knock down ginger1959

rat-a-tat ginger1959

riprap1959

rat-tat ginger1962

1882 Folk-Lore Rec. 5 85 Rosy apple, lemon or pear, Bunch of roses she shall wear.

1898 A. B. Gomme Trad. Games II. 117 (heading) Rosy Apple, Lemon and Pear.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xviii. 381 There are more than sixty established names for the pursuit of illegally knocking at doors... Rosy Apple. Derby.

1996 T. R. Chester Provisions of Light 35 Rosy apple, mellow pear, Bunch of roses she shall wear.

rosy-dancing adj. poetic (rare) (of waves) reflecting the rosy light of the rising or setting sun in a shifting and shimmering manner.The collocation is found elsewhere, but not necessarily as a fixed compound.

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1796 T. Townshend Poems 31 The purple might of kindled day..o'er the rosy-dancing tide Beams in warm lustre.

rosy drop n. [after post-classical Latin gutta rosacea gutta rosacea n. at gutta n.¹ Compounds or gutta rosea gutta rosea n. at gutta n.¹ Compounds] now historical = rosacea n.; cf. rose drop n. 1.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > roseola

rose drop1559

rosy drop1794

rose rash1805

roseola1807

scarlet rash1822

1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. xxxv. 450 An inflammation of the liver or stomach is translated..to the skin of the face, and forms the rosy drop.

1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. iii. xiii. 1081 Red swelling on the face of hard drinkers and high livers, known as ‘rosy drop’.

1981 J. D. Neeson & C. R. Stockdale Practitioner's Handbk. Ambulatory Ob/Gyn xvi. 332 Acne rosacea—also called bottle nose, brandy nose, toper's nose, brandy face, rosy drop (caused by congestion and telangiectasis of the tissue of the face and is often accompanied by acne and seborrhea).

rosy-fleeced adj. chiefly poetic suffused with or characterized by the rosy colour of the rising or setting sun.

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1872 Ann. Iowa Jan. 61 They saw the bright sunshine of the rosy-fleeced morn of prosperity, and lived to feel its meridian splendor on themselves and their families.

1936 R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 57 The rosy-fleeced Arrival of the Moon.

1954 R. Jeffers Coll. Poetry (1991) III. 397 When soft rain falls all night, and little rosy-fleeced clouds float on the dawn.

rosy-footed adj. poetic having rosy-coloured feet or a rosy-coloured base; frequently figurative.

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1728 J. Thomson Spring 24 While the rosy-footed May Steals blushing on.

1816 H. Downing Mary 147 But when the fair, the rosy-footed hours, Dance round his form, and strew his path with flowers.

1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Metamorphoses 236 The rosy-footed maidens.

1936 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 10 July 4/3 The rosy footed dawn of the perfect day is not tiptoeing upon the misty mountain tops.

rosy gills n. colloquial (originally cant) (rare) redness of the face, a red-coloured face; (hence) a red-faced person; cf. rosy-gilled adj. at Compounds 1d.

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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Rosy-gills, sanguine or fresh-colour'd.

1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 623/1 What a careless even deportment hath your borrower! what rosy gills!

1915 G. Bronson-Howard God's Man ii. i. 104 The head of one of the rosy-gills struck a brass-bound table corner as he staggered back from the first blow of the fighting L'Hommedieu.

rosy-hued adj. having the colour or shade of a pink or red rose; (in recent use frequently) (figurative) = rose-coloured adj. 3.

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a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 1198 Therwith al rosy hewed tho wex she, And gan to humme.

1783 J. Hoole tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso III. xxv. 347 I view'd Her sparkling eyes, her features rosy-hu'd.

1880 Bot. Gaz. 5 71 The peduncles have several scattered awl shaped bracts and..the stem is minutely rosy-hued.

1991 P. Slater Dream Deferred ii. v. 69 Even by the rosy-hued statistics of the Reagan administration, we have more poor people..than most industrialized countries.

rosy-tinted adj. tinged with the colour of a pink or red rose; rosy-hued, rose-tinted; (in recent use frequently) (figurative) = rose-coloured adj. 3.

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1695 Drayton's England's Heroical Epist. (new ed.) 21 A Rosie-tincted [rosy-taynted in earlier editions] Feature is Heav'ns Gold.

1798 R. Anderson Poems on Various Subjects II. 92 Queen of the rosy-tinted morn!

1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 120 In tufts of rosy-tinted snow.

1902 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 29 72 Locellina Starnesii..lamellae narrow.., concealed when young by the membranaceous white veil, pink or rosy tinted.

1994 William & Mary Q. 51 686 This construction of historical events and this version of radicalism depend on a selective, often rosy-tinted reading of sources.

rosy-torturing adj. poetic (rare) tormenting with excessive light or heat.

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1929 E. Blunden Near & Far 19 No mountains then, No rosy-torturing desert, no dead lake, Nor jungle, whirlpool, jealous frontier stopped us.

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rosy barb n. a tropical freshwater fish of southern Asia, Puntius conchonius (family Cyprinidae), the male of which has a pinkish body that deepens in colour during the breeding season.

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1930 Lincoln (Nebraska) Sunday Star 31 Aug. d5/4 Rosy Barb (Barbus conchonius), Asia.

2002 A. Burkhart et al. Care & Maintenance Aquarium Fish iii. 115/1 Rosy barbs are relatively hardy, but should not be used to cycle a tank.

rosy-bill n. (more fully rosy-bill duck) a South American pochard, Netta peposaca, the male of which has chiefly black plumage and a pinkish-red bill.

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Netta

red-headed duck1678

rosy-billed duck1867

rosy-bill1888

1888 R. Hubbard Ornamental Waterfowl ii. v. 162 The Rosy-bill is a native of South America.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 4 Nov. 9/2 Mandarin, Muscovy, and rosy-bill ducks.

1956 G. Durrell Drunken Forest i. 16 Rosybills, immaculate in their gleaming black-and-grey plumage, their beaks looking as though they had been freshly dipped in blood.

2005 A. Brant Compl. Guide Wing Shooting ii. 26 The complete list of ducks is as follows..Chilean widgeon, white-faced whistling duck, fulvous whistling duck, and rosy bill.

rosy-billed duck adj. = rosy-bill n.

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Netta

red-headed duck1678

rosy-billed duck1867

rosy-bill1888

1867 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1040 (table) Rosy-billed Duck. Fuligula peposaca.

1876 Proc. Zool. Soc. 399 The Rosy-billed Duck has been successfully introduced into Europe.

1987 Avian Dis. 31 213/1 Among zoo birds, hepatic carcinomas have been reported in a male Rosy-billed Duck (Netta peposaca).

rosy boa n. a small desert boa of south-western North America, Lichanura trivirgata, which typically has brownish longitudinal stripes and is popular as a pet.The name was formerly restricted to the Californian subspecies (originally regarded as a separate species, L. roseofusca), which often has a pinkish underside.

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1883 H. C. Yarrow in Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 24. 19 (list) Lichanura roseifusca Cope. Rosy Boa.

1907 R. L. Ditmars Reptile Bk. 211 The Rosy Boa Lichanura roseofusca, (Cope)... Body stout, tail short, blunt and slightly prehensile... The Three-lined Boa Lichanura trivirgata, (Cope).

1982 Christian Sci. Monitor (Boston, Mass.) (Nexis) 27 July 20 Lizards scampered everywhere, rosy boas and king snakes appeared, and I saw one horned toad.

2001 Pet Reptile July 15/1 (advt.) L.A. rosy boa... Tentacle snake... Jungle corn.

rosy feather star n. the feather star Antedon bifida (order Comatulida), found off the coasts of the north-east Atlantic.

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1840 E. Forbes Hist. Brit. Starfishes 16 The Rosy Feather-star is found on many parts of the British coast.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. x. 173 The rosy feather-star (Antedon bifida), not uncommon at depths of ten fathoms or so off some British coasts, is stalked in its early life.

2005 D. R. Khanna & P. R. Yadav Biol. Echinodermata 192 The modern rosy feather-star (Comatula or Antedon rosacea).

rosy finch n. the finch Leucosticte arctoa (family Fringillidae), the male of which has pinkish underparts and rump, occurring in both North America and Asia; (also) any of several other finches of the genus Leucosticte, found chiefly in Asia.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Parulidae (wood warbler) > [noun] > miscellaneous types of

redstart1731

chat1796

rosy finch1801

redstart warbler1815

orangequit1847

1801 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. II. 207 Rosy finch. Fringilla rosea... Inhabits among the willows..in Sibiria.

1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 350 Leucosticte,..Rosy Finches.

1945 Sci. Monthly Feb. 106 The American bird of unique habitat, the Dawson or Sierra Nevada rosy finch is here.

1992 Nature Canada Fall 42/2 Flying about on the peaks were rosy finches, obviously breeding nearby.

rosy footman n. a small Eurasian moth, Miltochrista miniata (family Arctiidae), which has yellowish forewings tinged with pink.

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1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 27/2 (caption) The Rosy Footman, or Red Arches (Calligenia miniata).

1905 Country-side 21 Oct. 347/1 My brother and I discovered a large number of males of the rosy footman (miniata) fluttering over a stunted oak-bush.

1992 A. S. Byatt Angels & Insects 55 A small moth, a Rosy Footman, was perched on Eugenia's shining hair.

rosy gull n. now historical (frequently with distinguishing word) Ross's gull, Rhodostethia rosea.In quot. 1831: Franklin's gull, Larus pipixcan.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus rosea (Ross's gull)

Ross's gull1828

rosy gull1829

1829 Edinb. Lit. Jrnl. 25 July 100/1 There must be something less gregarious, and more solitary, in the habits of that particular species called the rosy gull.

1831 Wilson's Amer. Ornith. IV. 353 Larus Franklinii, Franklin's Rosey Gull.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 316 Wedgetailed, or Ross' Rosy Gull,..white, rosy-tinted.

1907 Condor 9 179 (note) Mr. Burturlin..always speaks of Rhodostethia rosea as Rosy Gull; which I think a most appropriate name.

2005 T. Soper Arctic (ed. 2) 65 The bird was first described as the ‘collared gull’ by virtue of the necklace, then ‘Ross's rosy gull’ because the great seaman James Clark Ross shot the first recorded specimen.

rosy minor n. a small European noctuid moth, Mesiligia literosa, with pinkish brown forewings.

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1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 420 (table) Noctua... literosa... The rosy Minor.

1843 H. N. Humphreys & J. O. Westwood Brit. Moths I. 179 Miana literosa (the rosy minor). Miana strigilis (the marbled minor).

1907 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) 163 Miana literosa, Haw. ‘The Rosy Minor’. Local, but widely distributed in Britain, Europe, and C. Asia.

1985 Oikos 44 224/2 The rosy minor moth Miana literosa was extinct for many years in the industrial Sheffield area of England.

rosy pastor n. the rose-coloured starling, Sturnus roseus.

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1854 R. Curzon Armenia x. 139 (list) Pastor roseus—Rosy-pastor.

1901 Zoologist 5 353 On the last day of July I had released in the Gardens a Rosy Pastor bought in London, which soon vanished.

2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees ix. 217 Crows, bulbuls, mynahs, rosy pastors, sunbirds and flower-peckers flock to feast on the oily seeds.

rosy rustic n. a Holarctic noctuid moth, Hydraecia micacea, with pale pinkish brown forewings, which is often a pest of potatoes and other crops.

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1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 421 (table) Noctua... cypriaca... The rosy Rustic.

1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 282/2 The Rosy Rustic appears in the moth state throughout the autumn.

1986 M. Chinery Insects Brit. & W. Europe 164 Rosy Rustic Hydraecia micacea. Pink tinge varies in intensity.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	rosy
释义	rosyadj.n. Brit. /ˈrəʊzi/, U.S. /ˈroʊzi/ Forms: Middle English roosy, Middle English rosi, Middle English rosye, Middle English– rosy, 1500s roasie, 1500s rossy, 1500s–1800s rosie, 1700s– rosey; English regional 1800s– rooasy (Lancashire), 1800s– rwosy (Cumberland). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rose n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < rose n.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare Middle Dutch rosich (1391–1410; Dutch rozig ), Old High German rōsag (11th cent.; Middle High German rōsic , German rosig ), all in sense ‘rose-coloured, rose-red’. Compare earlier rosen adj.The Old English form roseum (dative singular neuter: see the variant reading cited in quot. lOE at rosen adj. 2) has been taken as evidence for an otherwise unattested Old English rōsig ; however, it is probably simply a transmission error for rosenum* , dative singular neuter of rōsen rosen adj. A. adj. 1. a. Having or being the colour of a light crimson or pink rose; rose-red.In early use frequently in figurative context, esp. of the dawn. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > rose-red or -pink rosenOE rose-redOE rosy1381 rosat?c1425 roseate1449 rosy-redc1450 rosetc1500 rosing?a1505 rose-coloured1526 rose-like1530 roseal1531 rosal1566 rosy-fingered1590 red rose1591 rosy-coloured1597 carnation1598 damask1598 rosied1600 damasked1609 rosical1631 roseac1638 rose1667 bloom-coloured1678 rose pink1778 rosaceous1783 rose-tinted1804 rose1806 rose1832 rose du Barry1856 blush-rose1888 1381 Diuersa Servicia in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 70 (MED) For to make rosee: tak þe flowrys of rosys..& do þereto sugur & safroun þat yt be wel ycolowrd & rosy of leuys & of þe forseyde flowrys. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 1755 That Phebus mot his rosy day [c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 rosi day; c1450 Harl. 2280 rosy carte] forth brynge. c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 123 (MED) Phebus with his chare of golde The rosye day haþ in his gouernaunce. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. ix. l. 2 Hir rosy charyot the fresch Aurora..Begouth fortil vproll. 1598 G. Chapman in C. Marlowe & G. Chapman Hero & Leander (new ed.) v. 45 The downless rosy faces Of youths and maids. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 410 This spirit..blesseth all partes with ioy and iolitie and dies them with a Rosie colour. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 175 For see the Morn..begins Her rosie progress smiling. View more context for this quotation 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. vii. 239 Alcinous gave the sign And bad the herald pour the rosy wine. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 495 The lark is gay, That dries his feathers..Beneath the rosy cloud. 1823 F. Clissold Narr. Ascent Mont Blanc 23 The western arc of the misty circle kindled, from a rosy to a deep reddening glow. 1845 Beck's Florist 198 The dark crimson feathered upper petals..contrast prettily with the white centre and rosy under petals. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 309 Wreaths sat on each hoar crown, Whose snows flush'd rosy beneath them. 1925 Cent. Mag. Jan. 412/2 I love San Juan—the old part, with its steep step streets, its ancient walls of yellow, rosy masonry. 1955 O. Manning Doves of Venus i. i. 4 The rosy cameo of chimneys..billowed smoke wreaths, glowing, massive, majestical as the smoke of hell. 1975 X. Herbert Poor Fellow my Country 467 He..made up a little fire..nibbling the thin rosy flesh of quondongs and spitting out their great pitted seeds. 1998 R. Stone Damascus Gate iii. xliii. 386 The church and adjoining monastery were the rosy color of Jerusalem stone but they did not seem very old. b. Designating a person, the face, the lips, etc., esp. as indicative of good health.to be rosy about the gills: see gill n.¹ 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [adjective] > with health rosyc1450 browzy1719 ruddy1727 red-blooded1876 c1450 in Mod. Philol. (1924) 21 395 Her fresshe chekys rosy in mesure. c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) l. 213 See how I syt dyscheuele on kne... My rosy lyppes, so how they persyd be. 1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS f. 234 My rosy lippis ar woxin paill and blay. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. D2 Her lillie hand, her rosie cheeke lies vnder. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 121 That sweet Rosie Lad. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 258 She held my hand,..Then from her rosie Lips began to speak. 1736 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 454/1 Dear Doctor, answered the Dean; you look well and rosy, your Colour is fresh. 1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 165 The carriage he was often pleased to fill with tired and rosy vintagers. 1874 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics 343 It is an every-day occurrence to see pale, anaemic patients become, whilst taking it, rosy and plethoric. 1925 Amer. Mercury May 22/2 A rosy old capitalist of sixty-odd, just back from the oil fields at Tampico. 1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side i. 22 Crease-faced or rosy, shaggy or bald, faded or florid,..one by one they came through the door. 1988 M. Brooks Paradise Café & Other Stories 57 She's seventy-five, short, rosy and healthy. 2002 S. Turow Reversible Errors (2003) 4 Pamela, with rosy good looks fit for TV news, flashed a bright coast-to-coast grin. c. Red-coloured as a result of blushing or embarrassment; blushing. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > blushing with shame or modesty > [adjective] rosy1593 blushing1609 blushful1611 blushy1865 red-faced2002 the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [adjective] > with blushing ruddyc1225 redc1275 flecked1544 rosy1593 scarlet1597 flush1619 flushed1690 mantling1690 overflushed1712 erubescent1736 aflush?1850 1593 A. Chute Beawtie Dishonoured 27 Behold how in her wanton fayre, Rosie Pallantias (new stolne from her bed) Blusheth her glorie on the morning ayre, In bashfull decensie of vermillion red. 1615 T. Tomkis Albumazar i. i. sig. B2^v Thou know'st my Rosy modesty cannot do it. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. v. 11 She..pray'd me oft forbearance: did it with A pudencie so Rosie [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1736 R. Erskine Paraphr. Song of Solomon 129 Thou modest hid'st thy rosy Cheeks, When Sins with Shame 'em flush. 1781 W. Cowper Anti-Thelypthora 87 She..turn'd her rosy cheek away. 1837 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 271 She ceased, and buried into her mantle's folds Her rosy cheek, relapsing into shame. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 10 Due return of blushing ‘Good Night’, rosy as a borne-off bride's. 1918 Overland Monthly May 408/1 The laughter that greeted his rosy countenance started off an evening of merriment that ended only with the midnight's coming. 1972 K. E. Woodiwiss Flame & Flower v. 201 She murmured an obedient answer, keeping her gaze fixed on her plate, and her cheeks took on a rosy hue. 2008 V. Kantra in Shifter 280 ‘Oh!’ She pressed her palms to suddenly rosy cheeks. ‘I cannot believe I am discussing undergarments with you.’ d. slang. Red-faced through drink; drunk; tipsy; (also) characterized by drunkenness. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > partially drunk merrya1382 semi-bousyc1460 pipe merry1542 totty1570 tipsy1577 martin-drunk1592 pleasant1596 mellow1611 tip-merry1612 flustered1615 lusticka1616 well to live1619 jolly1652 happy1662 hazy1673 top-heavy1687 hearty1695 half-seas-over1699 oiled1701 mellowish1703 half channelled over1709 drunkish1710 half-and-half1718 touched1722 uppisha1726 tosie1727 bosky1730 funny1751 fairish1756 cherry-merry1769 in suds1770 muddy1776 glorious1790 groggified1796 well-corned1800 fresh1804 to be mops and brooms1814 foggy1816 how-come-ye-so1816 screwy1820 off the nail1821 on (also, esp. in early use, upon) the go1821 swipey1821 muggy1822 rosy1823 snuffy1823 spreeish1825 elevated1827 up a stump1829 half-cockedc1830 tightish1830 tipsified1830 half shaved1834 screwed1837 half-shot1838 squizzed1845 drinky1846 a sheet in the wind1862 tight1868 toppy1885 tiddly1905 oiled-up1918 bonkers1943 sloshed1946 tiddled1956 hickey- 1823 London Mag. Apr. 386/2 There were still higher powers, even guagers [sic] and supervisors, who had been equally open to the seductions of the ‘rosy god’. 1871 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 308 The tall, rosy Hauptmann, who had become more rosy still from the claret. 1871 Baily's Monthly Mag. Sept. 360 We spend the rosy hours in such a very rosy way that the moralities of ‘the Queen,’ there is no doubt, suffer a sever strain. 1880 J. E. Wessely & A. Gironés New Pocket Dict. Eng. & Spanish Langs. (stereotype ed. 6) 14/1 To rejoice; to grow merry and rosy by drinking. 1931 Princeton Alumni Weekly 22 May 798/1 When ‘the lid is off’ one gets ‘rosy’,..and maybe ‘passes out’. 1980 M. McMullen My Cousin Death (1981) xvi. 187 He's just a little rosy..not over the edge at all. †e. English regional. Of poultry: healthy. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. 551 When the combs of hens look red and healthy, and they commence laying, fowls are said to be rosy. 2. Decorated or covered with roses; composed of roses; (in later use also) designating a rose-coloured pattern on porcelain, fabric, etc. Also figurative. Frequently poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [adjective] > of or relating to roses > abounding in or made of roses rosenOE rosetc1450 rosy1508 roseal1577 roseate1607 1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 185 The rosy garth, depaynt and redolent..Arayed was by dame Flora, the quene. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B8 A Rosy girlond was the victors meede. 1637 R. Monro Pract. Observ. in Exped. Scots Regim. iv. ii. 194 As this life is Rosie, so it hath flowers mixed with thornes. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 27 His rosie Wreath was dropt not long before. 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. v. 2 What youth, the rosy bower beneath, Now courts thee to be kind? 1771 E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton II. 271 I could again be weak enough..to reassume those rosy fetters. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 156 The rosy May, though fashionably a winter month, led on the smiling summer of nature, and June..was fast approaching. 1877 Irish Monthly 5 121 Something more than the soft summer breeze is moving the rosy bower now. 1940 Kingston (N.Y.) Daily Freeman 19 Dec. 18/4 (advt.) Free—1 Rosy Pattern Glass with each pound. 2008 Guardian (Nexis) 7 July 25 Some of his admirers regretted the day when seething rage and resentment overtook his devotion to rosy bowers and shady lanes and windflowers wet with dew. 3. Resembling a rose in some way other than in colour; esp. sweet-smelling or fragrant as a rose, rose-scented. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [adjective] > smelling of specific things rosat?c1425 rosetc1450 rosed1559 musked1576 musky1580 rosya1586 myrrhed1591 muskifiedc1600 roseal1601 olibian1605 roseate1611 honeysuckled1640 myrrhate1659 muscatelline1673 myrrhy1686 muskish1706 thymy1746 rose-scented1759 civeted1785 lily-scented1796 ottoed1810 citron-scented1817 camphory1826 camphoraceous1845 tea-scented1845 frankincensed1860 rose-like1866 sagey1871 camphorous1881 osier-odoured1881 lemony1894 lavendery1896 patchoulied1925 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. i. sig. Ii7^v Did not a rosed breath, from lips more rosie proceeding, Say [etc.]. 1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes xcvii, in Wks. I. 798 His cloke with orient veluet quite lin'd through, His rosie tyes and garters so ore-blowne. 1686 A. Behn tr. B. de Bonnecorse La Montre 208 If thou bear'st her Rosie Breath from thence, 'Tis Incense of that Excellence. 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination ii. 168 That name indeed Becomes the rosy breath of love. 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 8 Whereat the star of Lethe not delay'd His rosy eloquence. 1888 Good Housek. 17 Mar. 235/2 Its similarity of odor rendering it of great value to the perfumer, especially in compounds requiring a rosy fragrance where the finer shading of the rose itself would be lost. 1935 T. Wolfe Of Time & River i. iv. 36 His face, which had the satiny rosy texture, veinous and tender, that alcoholism and a daily massage can give, was brutally coarse and sensual. 1988 U. Holden Unicorn Sisters ii. 21 My face cream was like a talisman, smelling a little like Mamma's rosy scent. 2008 K. Johnson Second Generation xxx. 389 The guard admired her cleavage and drank in the rosy fragrance of her perfume. 4. figurative. a. Of an event, circumstance, etc.: that brings happiness, enjoyable, bright; (also) promising good fortune or happiness, hopeful; (over-)optimistic (cf. rose-coloured adj. 3, rose-tinted adj. Phrases). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > promise, ground of hope > [adjective] > of circumstances: propitious trine1477 towardly1520 bright1592 ominous1593 dexter1646 rosy1685 dextral1774 fairc1820 toward1850 1685 T. D'Urfey Scotch Hay-makers 1/1 In the rosie time o' th' Year, when the Grass was down. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Songs Duenna i. 1 Her rosy slumbers shall not fly. 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 14 As though in Cupid's college she had spent Sweet days.., And kept his rosy terms. 1874 L. Morris To Child of Fancy ii My little dove,..Who through the laughing summer day Spendest the rosy hours in play. 1887 H. Smart Cleverly Won ix To be purposely knocked over when his chance of winning looked rosy, would be too provoking. 1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn vi. 75 Life was a rosy ringing valiant pursuit. 1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 57 The French girl went back to France and tell she sister how things rosy in Brit'n, and the sister come. 1990 H. Rosovsky Univ. Owner's Man. xvi. 289 Could these sins of omission account for the rosy tint of the presentation? 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 30 Oct. viii. 13/1 The manufacturer projects rosy sales. 2006 Independent 13 June 8/5 It's a shame, but things haven't been rosy of late. b. Of temperament: optimistic, cheerful. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > optimism > [adjective] brighta1413 piousa1640 rosy-coloured1777 optimistical1834 optimizing1836 optimistic1849 rosy1859 optimist1860 1859 Harper's Mag. May 852/1 Fun is a great thing. It smooths the rough places of life, makes the disposition fresh and rosy. 1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 78 My companion, in a rosier temper, listened with great satisfaction to my Jeremiads. 1918 R. Pertwee Our Wonderful Selves (1919) ii. 103 He had thought to spend the evening considering his future, but in his rosy mood he decided a theatre would prove a more agreeable form of entertainment. 1953 Pop. Sci. May 130/1 He is a rangy Californian named Frank Kurtis, and the reason for his rosy mood is a new sports car. 1991 W. E. Bezanson in H. Melville Clarel App. 557 One is Derwent, a Broad-Church Anglican clergyman of rosy temperament untroubled by the modern dilemma—his motto: ‘All turns or alters for the best’. 2002 C. Skye My Spy xxix. 218 Only one unpleasant sight spoiled her rosy mood. B. n. †1. a. colloquial. With definite article. Red wine. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > [noun] wine805 juicea1387 shrab1477 Bacchus1508 the spirit (also sprite) of the buttery1530 Lyaeus1602 vintage1604 Septembral juice (or liquor)1609 grape1636 cellar physic1697 rosy1840 pluck1904 pinard1917 vino1919 1840 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop vii, in Master Humphrey's Clock 1 117 Richard Swiveller finished the rosy and applied himself to the composition of another glassful. 1850 J. O. Terry Poems 25 Then pass round the rosy, And let us be cozy. 1884 Current 9 Feb. 123/2 He [sc. Mr. Richard Swiveler]..was also more fond of passing and re-passing the ‘rosy’ than was consistent with any advancing occupation in life. b. colloquial. With definite article. Blood. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1891 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 25 Mar. 7/3 Goddard was smothered in the rosy as he went to his chair, and Choynski bled at the mouth. c. slang. A good time. Occasionally in to do the rosy: to have a good time. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1892 E. J. Milliken 'Arry Ballads 69/2 A doin' the rorty and rosy as lively as 'Opkins's lot. 1892 E. J. Milliken 'Arry Ballads 77 Not my idea of the rosy. 2. Nautical slang. A ship's rubbish bin. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > receptacle for refuse > in ship rosy1937 1937 D. Marlowe Coming, Sir! ii. 46 I struggled with the heavy garbage bins, called ‘rosies’. 1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 97/2 The rosy, the Merchant Navy's gash bucket: a ‘rose by any other name’. 1986 T. Lane Grey Dawn Breaking v. 143 We used to employ on this ship somebody who would just take the scraps. You'd take the ‘rosey’ out to them after it was used. Compounds C1. Modifying adjectives and nouns. a. With adjectives describing an action or condition, as rosy-blushing, rosy-glistening, rosy-rising, rosy-warm, etc. ΚΠ 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 484 Heau'ns Rosie-blushing cheekes. 1758 H. Lee Sophron II. 465 That this rosy-rising ray in nature would guide our contemplations. 1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 175 Let it mantle rosy-warm With the tinge of love. 1865 St. James's Mag. 13 382 Under the shade of those hawthorns sweet, Jeanie, rosy-blushing and shy, Standeth near ‘some one’ smilingly, Yet a tear in her soft brown eye. 1901 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 697 Sometimes, more like Aphrodite than Hecate, she conies up all rosy warm. 1916 E. Blunden Pastorals 19 Nothing Eastern come to us Save the rosy-rising sun. a1918 W. Owen Coll. Poems (1963) 127 The crunch of boots on blue snow rosy-glistening. 2006 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 6 Dec. a2 Let's face it: this time of year is either rosy-warm and cosy-happy or sad-lonesome and funky-blue. b. With adjectives (and nouns) expressing colour or tone, as rosy-blue, rosy bright, rosy-crimson, rosy-gilt, rosy-golden, rosy-mauve, rosy-pale, rosy-purple, rosy-white, etc. Cf. rosy-red adj. ΚΠ 1716 N. Rowe Ode for New Year vii. 6 On the balmy Air sits Rosie-colour'd Health. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 505 The racy wine,..By ten long years refin'd, and rosy-bright. 1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 220 One drop of tincture of galls gave a rosy purple colour to a wine-pint of this water. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 60 From the ground her foot Gleamed rosywhite. 1845 Beck's Florist 179 With large handsome foliage and..flowers of a pleasing rosy-crimson colour. 1862 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 10 Which, lightening o'er the body rosy-pale, Like shiver'd rubies dance. 1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. 68 His forehead was flower-white, his cheek rosy bright. 1894 Scribner's Mag. Feb. 200 Cattleya Trianae, with its rosy-mauve sepals and petals..is one of the best known orchids. 1925 V. Woolf Common Reader 115 The apples rosy-gilt in the afternoon sun. 1926 D. H. Lawrence Sun iii. 11 The child and she were now both tanned with a rosy-golden tan, all over. 1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 94 [Cattleya] Harrisoniana, light rosy-mauve, variable, summer, autumn. 1976 I. Murdoch Henry & Cato i. 3 Leaving New York in daylight, his plane had soon risen into a sort of radiant rosy-blue stratospheric gloom. 1978 N.Y. Mag. 3 Apr. 94/3 The terrine de poisson, a rosy-pale slice of fish pâté. 1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 139 The clusters or large, waxy, translucent, rich rosy-crimson, bell-shaped flowers are almost unbelievably beautiful. 1999 Church Times 11 June 11/1 The Judas tree..is now established, but..it will be a few years before we see its rich, rosy-purple pea-flowers on the bare stems. c. In the names of moths, birds, and other animals. See also Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 360 (table) Tinea... Salicis... The rosy Day-moth. 1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 257 The cones of pellucid rosy lilac, the Rosy Crumb Sponge. 1913 Wilson Bull. 25 131 The [faecal] sacs were full of the eggs of the rosy maple moth. 1959 Wilson Bull. 71 184 The humeri of two specimens of the Rosy-billed Pochard (Metopiana peposaca) of South America agree in all respects with those of the Anatinae. 1999 National Trust Mag. Autumn 63/1 The broom and tormentil make it an ideal breeding place for the rosy marbled moth. 2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Apr. 10/4 In Chile's turbulent ocean lives the rosy conger, a huge eel with flesh like snow. d. Forming parasynthetic adjectives, describing a feature or characteristic. rosy-bosomed adj. ΚΠ 1637 J. Milton Comus 34 The Graces, and the rosie-bosom'd Howres. 1728 J. Thomson Spring 49 The rosy-bosom'd Spring To weeping Fancy pines. 1875 Overland Monthly Aug. 202/2 The lemon and the orange, with their fragrance-freighted flowers, Enfeoffed of heaven with golden fruit for the rosy-bosomed hours. 1992 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Jan. 12nj 14/1 Beside this is Fuertes's lithograph of a rosy-bosomed passenger pigeon, dated 1911—three years before the species was finished off by the sporting crowd. rosy-cheeked adj. ΚΠ 1597 T. Morley Canzonets to Fiue & Sixe Voices vi. sig. B 3^v Rosie check'd cristall ei'd eu'n weeping lightsome. 1633 Breton's Poste with Packet Madde Lett. (rev. ed.) i. 2 The beautifull lineaments of rosie cheekt Ladies. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. x. 69 He..ordered his daughter, a jolly rosy-cheeked damsel,..to bring us a bottle of his quadrimum. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 610 Foxhunting squires and their rosycheeked daughters. 1989 ‘C. Roman’ Foreplay vi. 74 The driver's an overweight rosy-cheeked Bible thumper. rosy-crowned adj. ΚΠ 1757 T. Gray Ode I i. iii, in Odes 6 The rosy-crowned Loves are seen On Cytherea's day. 1859 Russell's Mag. Sept. 559 Fair lingering token of rosy crowned Spring. 1992 G. Wuerthner Yellowstone 79 Typical animals are pika, yellow-bellied marmot, mountain goat, bighorn sheep, golden eagle, water pipit, and rosy-crowned finch. rosy-faced adj. ΚΠ 1772 Precipitate Choice II. xiv. 93 A rosy-faced country girl is my only attendant. 1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xvi. 246 There she was, nodding away at them like a rosy-faced mandarin. 1986 T. Mo Insular Possession xxx. 362 The rosy-faced bumpkins of Oxfordshire or Somerset, who shall drop as plentifully as the sere leaves of autumn. rosy-featured adj. ΚΠ 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination ii. 634 O restore The rosy-featur'd maid. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West 370 An athletic, rosy-featured young man came running by the tent door with a pistol in his hand. 1998 Guardian (Nexis) 3 Aug. 7 The young man celebrating in the photograph has gentle eyes. His arms are round a rosy-featured old woman. rosy-flowered adj. ΚΠ 1818 R. Sweet Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis 80 (table) Œnothera..rosy-flowered. 1927 V. Woolf To Lighthouse i. vii. 60 A rosy-flowered fruit tree. 2006 R. H. Mohlenbrock This Land 207 The others in this zone are yellow violet, a rosy-flowered sandwort, and two kinds of tiny-leaved milk vetches. rosy-gilled adj. ΚΠ 1737 London Mag. Apr. 211/2 At the knock of the buttery-hatch, The rosy-gill'd chaplain comes down. c1898 J. R. Lowell Poems 382 Neither were those plump, rosy-gilled Englishmen that came hither, but a hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race. 1990 E. K. Sedgwick Epistemol. Closet iv. 192 The rounded Pickwickian self-complacency of the rosy-gilled bachelor at breakfast is, then, all the more striking by contrast. rosy-lipped adj. ΚΠ 1781 J. Hoy Poems 43 Rosy-lipp'd Health, and virtuous calm Content. 1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 491 That mouth, so rosy-lipped, and so eloquent! 1895 Catholic World Aug. 629 She was blue-eyed and rosy-lipped, and had a delicate semi-transparent skin. 1998 Entertainm. Weekly 19 June 47 The title character of Mulan..is a rosy-lipped, almond-eyed young beauty in imperial China. rosy-muzzled adj. ΚΠ 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 63 Violets, Pagan, rosy-muzzled violets. a1933 R. W. Chambers Love & Lieutenant (1935) 173 That fat, rosy-muzzled pup, Wilkinson, remonstrated. rosy-palmed adj. ΚΠ 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. i. 588 The day-spring's daughter, rosy palm'd. 1898 ‘H. Mathers’ Bam Wildfire i. viii. 100 Gregory softly took the rosy-palmed hand hanging by Bam's side in both his own. 1934 S. Beckett tr. R. Goffin in N. Cunard Negro 291 His rosy-palmed hand beats a tattoo on the table or seizes me by the arm or plays on the imaginary pistons of a fork. rosy-petalled adj. ΚΠ 1874 Garden 14 Feb. 136/1 C. longifolium flowers all the year round, the rosy-petalled flowers being borne one at a time on a ten or twelve-flowered spike. 1928 E. Blunden Retreat 44 This retinue Of rosy-petalled sauntering joys. 1995 J. Stallworthy Rounding Horn (1998) 228 And I woke, as poets say, ‘When rosy-petalled dawn had strewn the earth’. rosy-rayed adj. ΚΠ 1834 Gardener's Mag. Oct. 513 The stem..is divided, upwards, into slender branches, each tipped with a rosy-rayed head of flowers. 1925 E. Blunden Eng. Poems 90 Moon-pallid some [fish] come gliding through the green..Others like opals rosy-rayed convene. 2005 I. Onians tr. Dandin What Ten Young Men Did vii. 213 When the rosy-rayed sun rose again it was like a wildfire on the peaks of its eastern rising-mountain. rosy-tainted adj. ΚΠ 1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 10^v A rosy-taynted feature is heauens gold. 2003 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily Star (Nexis) 20 Feb. b5 It's time our news media take off their rosy-tainted Republican glasses and see clearly what is going on. C2. General uses. rosy apple n. (a) the description of the fruit used in various skipping formulas; (b) = knock down ginger n. at knock-down adj. and n. Additions. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] rosy apple1882 doctors and nurses (also patients)1906 doctor1918 knock down ginger1959 rat-a-tat ginger1959 riprap1959 rat-tat ginger1962 1882 Folk-Lore Rec. 5 85 Rosy apple, lemon or pear, Bunch of roses she shall wear. 1898 A. B. Gomme Trad. Games II. 117 (heading) Rosy Apple, Lemon and Pear. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xviii. 381 There are more than sixty established names for the pursuit of illegally knocking at doors... Rosy Apple. Derby. 1996 T. R. Chester Provisions of Light 35 Rosy apple, mellow pear, Bunch of roses she shall wear. rosy-dancing adj. poetic (rare) (of waves) reflecting the rosy light of the rising or setting sun in a shifting and shimmering manner.The collocation is found elsewhere, but not necessarily as a fixed compound. ΚΠ 1796 T. Townshend Poems 31 The purple might of kindled day..o'er the rosy-dancing tide Beams in warm lustre. rosy drop n. [after post-classical Latin gutta rosacea gutta rosacea n. at gutta n.¹ Compounds or gutta rosea gutta rosea n. at gutta n.¹ Compounds] now historical = rosacea n.; cf. rose drop n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > roseola rose drop1559 rosy drop1794 rose rash1805 roseola1807 scarlet rash1822 1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. xxxv. 450 An inflammation of the liver or stomach is translated..to the skin of the face, and forms the rosy drop. 1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. iii. xiii. 1081 Red swelling on the face of hard drinkers and high livers, known as ‘rosy drop’. 1981 J. D. Neeson & C. R. Stockdale Practitioner's Handbk. Ambulatory Ob/Gyn xvi. 332 Acne rosacea—also called bottle nose, brandy nose, toper's nose, brandy face, rosy drop (caused by congestion and telangiectasis of the tissue of the face and is often accompanied by acne and seborrhea). rosy-fleeced adj. chiefly poetic suffused with or characterized by the rosy colour of the rising or setting sun. ΚΠ 1872 Ann. Iowa Jan. 61 They saw the bright sunshine of the rosy-fleeced morn of prosperity, and lived to feel its meridian splendor on themselves and their families. 1936 R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 57 The rosy-fleeced Arrival of the Moon. 1954 R. Jeffers Coll. Poetry (1991) III. 397 When soft rain falls all night, and little rosy-fleeced clouds float on the dawn. rosy-footed adj. poetic having rosy-coloured feet or a rosy-coloured base; frequently figurative. ΚΠ 1728 J. Thomson Spring 24 While the rosy-footed May Steals blushing on. 1816 H. Downing Mary 147 But when the fair, the rosy-footed hours, Dance round his form, and strew his path with flowers. 1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Metamorphoses 236 The rosy-footed maidens. 1936 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 10 July 4/3 The rosy footed dawn of the perfect day is not tiptoeing upon the misty mountain tops. rosy gills n. colloquial (originally cant) (rare) redness of the face, a red-coloured face; (hence) a red-faced person; cf. rosy-gilled adj. at Compounds 1d. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Rosy-gills, sanguine or fresh-colour'd. 1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 623/1 What a careless even deportment hath your borrower! what rosy gills! 1915 G. Bronson-Howard God's Man ii. i. 104 The head of one of the rosy-gills struck a brass-bound table corner as he staggered back from the first blow of the fighting L'Hommedieu. rosy-hued adj. having the colour or shade of a pink or red rose; (in recent use frequently) (figurative) = rose-coloured adj. 3. ΚΠ a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 1198 Therwith al rosy hewed tho wex she, And gan to humme. 1783 J. Hoole tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso III. xxv. 347 I view'd Her sparkling eyes, her features rosy-hu'd. 1880 Bot. Gaz. 5 71 The peduncles have several scattered awl shaped bracts and..the stem is minutely rosy-hued. 1991 P. Slater Dream Deferred ii. v. 69 Even by the rosy-hued statistics of the Reagan administration, we have more poor people..than most industrialized countries. rosy-tinted adj. tinged with the colour of a pink or red rose; rosy-hued, rose-tinted; (in recent use frequently) (figurative) = rose-coloured adj. 3. ΚΠ 1695 Drayton's England's Heroical Epist. (new ed.) 21 A Rosie-tincted [rosy-taynted in earlier editions] Feature is Heav'ns Gold. 1798 R. Anderson Poems on Various Subjects II. 92 Queen of the rosy-tinted morn! 1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 120 In tufts of rosy-tinted snow. 1902 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 29 72 Locellina Starnesii..lamellae narrow.., concealed when young by the membranaceous white veil, pink or rosy tinted. 1994 William & Mary Q. 51 686 This construction of historical events and this version of radicalism depend on a selective, often rosy-tinted reading of sources. rosy-torturing adj. poetic (rare) tormenting with excessive light or heat. ΚΠ 1929 E. Blunden Near & Far 19 No mountains then, No rosy-torturing desert, no dead lake, Nor jungle, whirlpool, jealous frontier stopped us. C3. In the names of moths, birds, and other animals. rosy barb n. a tropical freshwater fish of southern Asia, Puntius conchonius (family Cyprinidae), the male of which has a pinkish body that deepens in colour during the breeding season. ΚΠ 1930 Lincoln (Nebraska) Sunday Star 31 Aug. d5/4 Rosy Barb (Barbus conchonius), Asia. 2002 A. Burkhart et al. Care & Maintenance Aquarium Fish iii. 115/1 Rosy barbs are relatively hardy, but should not be used to cycle a tank. rosy-bill n. (more fully rosy-bill duck) a South American pochard, Netta peposaca, the male of which has chiefly black plumage and a pinkish-red bill. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Netta red-headed duck1678 rosy-billed duck1867 rosy-bill1888 1888 R. Hubbard Ornamental Waterfowl ii. v. 162 The Rosy-bill is a native of South America. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 4 Nov. 9/2 Mandarin, Muscovy, and rosy-bill ducks. 1956 G. Durrell Drunken Forest i. 16 Rosybills, immaculate in their gleaming black-and-grey plumage, their beaks looking as though they had been freshly dipped in blood. 2005 A. Brant Compl. Guide Wing Shooting ii. 26 The complete list of ducks is as follows..Chilean widgeon, white-faced whistling duck, fulvous whistling duck, and rosy bill. rosy-billed duck adj. = rosy-bill n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Netta red-headed duck1678 rosy-billed duck1867 rosy-bill1888 1867 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1040 (table) Rosy-billed Duck. Fuligula peposaca. 1876 Proc. Zool. Soc. 399 The Rosy-billed Duck has been successfully introduced into Europe. 1987 Avian Dis. 31 213/1 Among zoo birds, hepatic carcinomas have been reported in a male Rosy-billed Duck (Netta peposaca). rosy boa n. a small desert boa of south-western North America, Lichanura trivirgata, which typically has brownish longitudinal stripes and is popular as a pet.The name was formerly restricted to the Californian subspecies (originally regarded as a separate species, L. roseofusca), which often has a pinkish underside. ΚΠ 1883 H. C. Yarrow in Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 24. 19 (list) Lichanura roseifusca Cope. Rosy Boa. 1907 R. L. Ditmars Reptile Bk. 211 The Rosy Boa Lichanura roseofusca, (Cope)... Body stout, tail short, blunt and slightly prehensile... The Three-lined Boa Lichanura trivirgata, (Cope). 1982 Christian Sci. Monitor (Boston, Mass.) (Nexis) 27 July 20 Lizards scampered everywhere, rosy boas and king snakes appeared, and I saw one horned toad. 2001 Pet Reptile July 15/1 (advt.) L.A. rosy boa... Tentacle snake... Jungle corn. rosy feather star n. the feather star Antedon bifida (order Comatulida), found off the coasts of the north-east Atlantic. ΚΠ 1840 E. Forbes Hist. Brit. Starfishes 16 The Rosy Feather-star is found on many parts of the British coast. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. x. 173 The rosy feather-star (Antedon bifida), not uncommon at depths of ten fathoms or so off some British coasts, is stalked in its early life. 2005 D. R. Khanna & P. R. Yadav Biol. Echinodermata 192 The modern rosy feather-star (Comatula or Antedon rosacea). rosy finch n. the finch Leucosticte arctoa (family Fringillidae), the male of which has pinkish underparts and rump, occurring in both North America and Asia; (also) any of several other finches of the genus Leucosticte, found chiefly in Asia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Parulidae (wood warbler) > [noun] > miscellaneous types of redstart1731 chat1796 rosy finch1801 redstart warbler1815 orangequit1847 1801 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. II. 207 Rosy finch. Fringilla rosea... Inhabits among the willows..in Sibiria. 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 350 Leucosticte,..Rosy Finches. 1945 Sci. Monthly Feb. 106 The American bird of unique habitat, the Dawson or Sierra Nevada rosy finch is here. 1992 Nature Canada Fall 42/2 Flying about on the peaks were rosy finches, obviously breeding nearby. rosy footman n. a small Eurasian moth, Miltochrista miniata (family Arctiidae), which has yellowish forewings tinged with pink. ΚΠ 1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 27/2 (caption) The Rosy Footman, or Red Arches (Calligenia miniata). 1905 Country-side 21 Oct. 347/1 My brother and I discovered a large number of males of the rosy footman (miniata) fluttering over a stunted oak-bush. 1992 A. S. Byatt Angels & Insects 55 A small moth, a Rosy Footman, was perched on Eugenia's shining hair. rosy gull n. now historical (frequently with distinguishing word) Ross's gull, Rhodostethia rosea.In quot. 1831: Franklin's gull, Larus pipixcan. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus rosea (Ross's gull) Ross's gull1828 rosy gull1829 1829 Edinb. Lit. Jrnl. 25 July 100/1 There must be something less gregarious, and more solitary, in the habits of that particular species called the rosy gull. 1831 Wilson's Amer. Ornith. IV. 353 Larus Franklinii, Franklin's Rosey Gull. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 316 Wedgetailed, or Ross' Rosy Gull,..white, rosy-tinted. 1907 Condor 9 179 (note) Mr. Burturlin..always speaks of Rhodostethia rosea as Rosy Gull; which I think a most appropriate name. 2005 T. Soper Arctic (ed. 2) 65 The bird was first described as the ‘collared gull’ by virtue of the necklace, then ‘Ross's rosy gull’ because the great seaman James Clark Ross shot the first recorded specimen. rosy minor n. a small European noctuid moth, Mesiligia literosa, with pinkish brown forewings. ΚΠ 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 420 (table) Noctua... literosa... The rosy Minor. 1843 H. N. Humphreys & J. O. Westwood Brit. Moths I. 179 Miana literosa (the rosy minor). Miana strigilis (the marbled minor). 1907 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) 163 Miana literosa, Haw. ‘The Rosy Minor’. Local, but widely distributed in Britain, Europe, and C. Asia. 1985 Oikos 44 224/2 The rosy minor moth Miana literosa was extinct for many years in the industrial Sheffield area of England. rosy pastor n. the rose-coloured starling, Sturnus roseus. ΚΠ 1854 R. Curzon Armenia x. 139 (list) Pastor roseus—Rosy-pastor. 1901 Zoologist 5 353 On the last day of July I had released in the Gardens a Rosy Pastor bought in London, which soon vanished. 2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees ix. 217 Crows, bulbuls, mynahs, rosy pastors, sunbirds and flower-peckers flock to feast on the oily seeds. rosy rustic n. a Holarctic noctuid moth, Hydraecia micacea, with pale pinkish brown forewings, which is often a pest of potatoes and other crops. ΚΠ 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 421 (table) Noctua... cypriaca... The rosy Rustic. 1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 282/2 The Rosy Rustic appears in the moth state throughout the autumn. 1986 M. Chinery Insects Brit. & W. Europe 164 Rosy Rustic Hydraecia micacea. Pink tinge varies in intensity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). rosyv. Brit. /ˈrəʊzi/, U.S. /ˈroʊzi/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rosy adj. Etymology: < rosy adj. Compare earlier rose v. 1. transitive. To render rosy; to tinge pink or red. Occasionally with over, up. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > making or becoming red > make red [verb (transitive)] > make rose-red rose1610 rosy1652 roseate1809 damask1863 1652 J. Collier Friends Eccho in E. Benlowes Theophila Fond Sense, cry up a rosie Skin, Sacrata rosy'd is within. 1788 Shakespeare's Henry V v. ii. 436, in Bell's Ed. Shakspere XII. 128 Being a maid yet rosy'd [1623 ros'd] over with the virgin crimson of modesty. 1826 London Mag. Aug. 490 Persons in their condition could not be expected to fall into ecstacies at the blush of dawn, rosying the subdued waters, and crimsoning the clouds. 1864 A. T. de Vere Infant Bridal 195 At first a gentle fear Rosied her countenance. 1908 M. J. Cawein Poems I. 5 All the maiden modesty's surprise Rosying her temples. 1968 Punch 20 Mar. 412/2 The estate agent..will fertilise your illusions, rosy up your dreams. 1982 W. Goyen Had I Hundred Mouths (1986) 59 It seemed..one of the few beautiful things of openness and plainness that I knew—the woodfire's throbbing glow rosying the room. 2005 Sarnia (Ont.) Observer (Nexis) 21 Nov. b1 Old Man Winter's chill rosied my nose as I mumbled out the words to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. 2. intransitive. To become rosy or rose-red. Also with over. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > making or becoming red > become red [verb (intransitive)] > become rose red rosy1846 1846 E. Robinson Cæsar Borgia xii. 162 Lucrezia's whole physiognomy rosied over. 1881 Argosy 32 223 The sea-pinks rosying in ocean cave. 1918 M. Craig Maktoub iii. vii. 208 Mabrouk looked at the girl and she rosied prettily. 1995 W. H. Gass Tunnel (1999) 104 Her fat face rosied. Derivatives ˈrosying n. ΚΠ 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 28 The rosying in twilight of the reaches of the Thames. 2000 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 27 Feb. 15 Nevermind the rosying of the cheeks, I decided to wrap up warm in an anorak that would defy the fiercest blizzard the South Pole could throw at it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1381v.1652
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