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lettucey

adj

Etymology

From lettuce + -y.

  1. derived from lēactric
  2. derived from lactūca
  3. derived from laitue
  4. inherited from letuse
  5. suffixed as lettucey — “lettuce + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of lettuce.

    • She read a bit in some evening paper about proper dieting, and she's gone all lettucey.
    • The flowers and weeds around him have coarsened with new growth, and the trees have a fresh lettucey look — how absurd, how delightful that growth should continue even in the month of December.
    • The leaves were a gentle, lettucey green, and Calder found himself thinking it would be easy, if you wanted to murder someone, to mix a few in with a salad.

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