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beetrooty

adj

Etymology

From beetroot + -y.

  1. derived from *wréh₂ds✻ — “root”
  2. derived from *wrōts✻
  3. derived from rót
  4. inherited from rōt
  5. inherited from rote
  6. compounded as beetroot — “beet + root”
  7. suffixed as beetrooty — “beetroot + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of beetroot in color, texture, etc.

    • "She's coming out," screamed the smallest boy, with the whitest face, the most beetrooty nose, the thinnest blouse, and the most precocious intellect ever seen or heard of.
    • The exertion of walking in a tight dress over rough fields made her momentarily more beetrooty.
    • Swelling up with a beetrooty apoplectic rage, the Councillor seized the white silk chair and, swinging it by the arms, banged it violently against the floor […]

  2. Containing beetroot.

    • The soup makes a good starter: Ukrainian barszcz (£4.50) is a rich, beetrooty affair.
    • Innocent, sandy, smiling, smelling of clove cigarettes and beetrooty hamburgers and a faraway sea.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA