Definition of greenery-yallery in English:
greenery-yallery
adjective ˌɡriːnərɪˈjaləri
informal 1Green and yellow.
the greenery-yallery dogwood
Example sentencesExamples
- The pale, faintly mauve, pink satin ground contrasts with the ‘greenery-yallery’ lilies.
- 1.1 Of or in the style of the 19th-century Aesthetic Movement (used to convey the idea of affectation)
a greenery-yallery fin-de-siècle lyricism
Example sentencesExamples
- As these letters amply show, to think of Wilde as a greenery-yallery, light weight, green-carnationist teller of fairy-tales, and tell-taler of Society comedies, is to be naive.
Origin
Late 19th century: from green + yaller (variant of yellow), with reduplication of the suffix -y1.