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Orangish
Answer for the clue "Orangish ", 7 letters:
carroty
Word definitions for carroty in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "red-haired," from carrot (n.) + -y (2).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carroty \Car"rot*y\, a. Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. resembling the bright orange of the root of the carrot plant; "a boy with carroty hair"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Resembling carrots in colour, taste, etc.; containing carrot.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ She didn't like any of the Laceys, with their carroty red hair and green malicious eyes.
Usage examples of carroty.
In the yard of the picturesque old building, half covered with ivy, with its mossy wheel slumbering amid water-lilies, they found the Lepailleurs, the man tall, dry, and carroty, the woman as carroty and as dry as himself, but both of them young and hardy.
The girl Mary was indeed stimulating with her plump legs, milky skin, sharp pink nipples and fringe of pubic hair, carroty to match head and underarms.
She had carroty hair and hard eyes and looked at me looking at her for exactly two seconds before spinning on her bare heel to go back into her lair.
Her carroty hair was covered by a close-fitting black hat and she'd replaced the kimono with a dark dress and coat.
Her carroty hair was in every direction and her clothes were thoroughly mussed about.
Myers beamed out upon them from under its thin, smooth, glistening thatch of carroty hair.
They were pretty hands, small and finely shaped, with pale pink nails--her only beauty, her brother Charles had generously conceded, pointing out with brutal frankness that with a turned-up nose like hers, and a mouth like a letterbox and carroty hair to boot, she was no picture.
It was sufficiently horrific to allow her to forget all about the man who didn't like carroty hair.
Strangely, she didn't fancy the idea, until she remembered how he had said, very plainly indeed, that he didn't like carroty hair.
I came prepared to deal quite severely with you, but now, seeing you like this with that carroty hair all over the place and that ridiculous short skirt, I find I can't--it would be like bawling out Johanna.
She had a lightning glimpse of herself in ten years' time, her carroty hair a little dull, and she herself a little dull too, running a ward with the efficiency of someone who had no other interest in life.
Dear Roly, empty your carroty head of the nonsense you've chosen to fill it with.
That's a pity, for I find that carroty hair is my favourite colour after all.
She swept past him, her strange carroty hair a-glow with rage, her eyes sparkling.
The lad's hair was inclined to be carroty, while that of the girl suggested the color of oats.