Sekirov Dictionary

yellow

/ˈjɛloʊ/

adjective 9
noun 9
verb 3
exclamation 1
forms 5
phrases 13

adjective9

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of the bright color between orange and green, like the middle one of three traffic lights
- He had a yellow laptop in his bag.
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(informal) Lacking courage.
- What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it. — 1951
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Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
- The denizens of the gossipy world of the pink press, purple prose and yellow tabloids are shivering over disputed photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco. — 2004
(UK) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
Related to the Free Democratic Party, a political party in Germany.
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(offensive) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
- Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man. — 1913
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(offensive) Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
- They were all tall and all handsome, though they varied in their degree of darkness of skin, some being as dark as Mahomed, and some as yellow as a Chinese. — 1886
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(offensive, old-fashioned) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
- "Eh, Oscar—you hear about your yeller nephew?". — 1938
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(US, old-fashioned) Synonym of high yellow.
- Charley threw her over for a yellow gal named Nancy: he never forgave Vashti for the vanishing from his life of a menace that had come to mean more to him than Vashti herself. — 1933

noun9

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The color of sunflower petals and lemons; the color obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light; the color evoked by light of wavelength around 580 nm; one of the three primary colors in subtractive color systems.
- It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw—not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things. — 1892
(US) The middle light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls.
A yellow card.
Something, or a part of a thing, which is yellow.
A yellow dye or pigment.
A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of yellow pigment.
Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow colored species. Compare sulphur.

verb3

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To become yellow or yellower.
- Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath. — 1977
To make (something) yellow or yellower.
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(historical) To promote (a captain) to flag rank without command of a squadron, ending his career; to make him a yellow admiral.
- Then they might yellow him if they wanted to; he would be satisfied with Admiral’s rank. — 1938

exclamation1

(slang) Used to indicate that the speaker needs a temporary break from current sexual activity.

forms

yellowed · yellowing · yellows · yellower · yellowest

Phrases with yellow

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