Carroty
like a carrot, as in color, flavor, or shape.
Historical Examples
Who is Miss Jewsberry, who has carroty hair and writes novels?
Letters to an Unknown Prosper Mrime
“I should hardly call it carroty,” contended the Philosopher.
Tea-Table Talk Jerome K. Jerome
He had what his mamma called beautiful auburn locks, but what other people said were carroty; not before the mother, of course.
The Bad Family and Other Stories Mrs. Fenwick
For a moment I let her stroke my carroty hair, which she liked.
A Man in the Open Roger Pocock
Hicks received a ball in his jaw, and was half choked by a quantity of carroty whisker forced down his throat with the ball.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray
He’s like a blooming Sheeny, with a carroty beard and gold gig-lamps!
John Thorndyke’s Cases R. Austin Freeman
Mrs. Ross came, however, and she brought with her Kenneth to be a solemn and freckled and carroty page.
Sinister Street, vol. 2 Compton Mackenzie
He would red-ochre it for a carroty cranium of a comic countryman, and he admitted once to black-leading it.
The Strand Magazine, Volume VII, Issue 38, February 1894 Various
The lad’s hair was inclined to be carroty, while that of the girl suggested the color of oats.
Fruitfulness Emile Zola
Over behind the stove was a tall, awkward boy with carroty hair and small, dark eyes set much aslant in the saddest of faces.
Two Little Savages Ernest Thompson Seton
adjective
of a reddish or yellowish-orange colour
having red hair
adj.
1690s, “red-haired,” from carrot (n.) + -y (2).
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