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Greeny
greeny
greeny
See also: Greeny
English
Alternative forms
- greenie (noun only)
Noun
greeny (plural greenies)
- (pejorative) a member of a Green party, a green
- (slang) nasal mucus, a bogey
Adjective
greeny (not comparable)
- greenish; like green, combined with green
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 6,
- Resentment showed in his face, greeny-brown and wrinkled like a baked apple,—resentment that white folks should pry into matters wholly Indian.
- 2001, Tim Parks, Juggling the Stars
- In the end he settled for a very faint and tightly checked greeny shirt to go with his dark tweed jacket […]
- "And my eyes are weird green grey. More greeny blue in daylight." —
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 6,