yellow
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /ˈjɛl.əʊ/
- (GA) enPR: yĕl′ō, IPA: /ˈjɛl.oʊ/
- (dialect) IPA: /ˈjɛl.ɚ/
- (dated, Southern US folk speech) IPA: /jɛlə/, /ˈjælə/, /ˈjɑlə/, /ˈjɪlə/, /ˈjʌlə/
yellow (comparative yellower, superlative yellowest)
- Having yellow as its colour.
- 1667, John Milton, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1667)/Book_X Paradise Lost](1667) - Book X,line 434
- A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought / First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.
- 1827, [John Keble], “Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], OCLC 1029642537 ↗, page 85 ↗:
- Red o'er the forest glows the setting sun, / The line of yellow light dies fast away / That crown'd the eastern copse, and chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.
- 1911, J. Milton Hayes, "The green eye of the little yellow god,"
- There's a one-eyed yellow idol / To the north of Kathmandu; / There's a little marble cross below the town; / And a brokenhearted woman / Tends the grave of 'Mad' Carew, / While the yellow god for ever gazes down.
- 1962 (quoting c. 1398 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, editors, Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
- dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ȝelouȝ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dory#Adjective|dorrey & citrine & liȝt red tokeneþ mene.
- 1667, John Milton, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1667)/Book_X Paradise Lost](1667) - Book X,line 434
- (informal) Lacking courage.
- 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13:
- 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.
- 1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!
- 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13:
- (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
- 2004, Doreen Carvajal, "Photo edict muffles gossipy press ↗," International Herald Tribune, 4 Oct. (retrieved 29 July 2008),
- 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, Doreen Carvajal, "Photo edict muffles gossipy press ↗," International Herald Tribune, 4 Oct. (retrieved 29 July 2008),
- (chiefly, derogatory, offensive) Far East Asian relating to Asian people.
- 1913,Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu ↗
- Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.
- 1913,Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu ↗
- (dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 64,
- "Eh, Oscar—you hear about your yeller nephew?".
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 64,
- (dated, US) High yellow.
- 1933 September 9, James Thurber, “My Life and Hard Times—VI. A Sequence of Servants”, in The New Yorker
- 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 September 9, James Thurber, “My Life and Hard Times—VI. A Sequence of Servants”, in The New Yorker
- (UK, politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
- 2012 March 2, Andrew Grice, "Yellow rebels take on Clegg over NHS 'betrayal' ↗", The Independent
- yellow constituencies
- (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party (Germany) of Germany.
- the black-yellow coalition
- (lacking courage) cowardly
- (having yellow as its colour) nonyellow, unyellow
- French: froussard, lâche
- German: feige
- Italian: codardo
- Portuguese: covarde, amarelão, amarelona
- Russian: трусли́вый
- Spanish: cobarde
yellow (plural yellows)
- colorbox yellow The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
- (US) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
- (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool#Etymology 2|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).
- (sports) A yellow card.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow coloured species. Compare sulphur.
- (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights) amber (British)
yellow (yellows, present participle yellowing; past yellowed, past participle yellowed)
- (intransitive) To become yellow or more yellow.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, page 47:
- 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, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, page 47:
- (transitive) To make (something) yellow or more yellow.
- Italian: ingiallire
- Portuguese: amarelar
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