greenery-yallery
/ˌɡriːnərɪˈjaləri
/adjective informal
1Green and yellow: the greenery-yallery dogwood...
- The pale, faintly mauve, pink satin ground contrasts with the ‘greenery-yallery’ lilies.
1.1Of or in the style of the 19th-century Aesthetic Movement (used to convey the idea of affectation): a greenery-yallery fin-de-siècle lyricism...
- 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.