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English
Etymology
From Middle English asshy, asky, equivalent to ash + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ashy (comparative ashier, superlative ashiest)
- Resembling ashes (especially in colour); (of a person’s complexion) unusually pale as a result of strong emotion, illness, etc.
- Synonyms: ashen, cineraceous, cinereous
1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: Richard Field, , →OCLC; Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis: , 4th edition, London: J M Dent and Co. , 1896, →OCLC:Still is he sullein, still he lowres and frets,
Twixt crimson shame, and anger ashie pale,
1634 (first performance), Thomas Heywood, Loves Maistresse: Or, The Queens Masque. , London: Robert Raworth, for Iohn Crowch; and are to bee sold by Iasper Emery, , published 1636, →OCLC, Act IIII:Tell her that sicknesse, with her ashie hand,
Hath swept away the beauty from my cheekes,
- Comprising, containing, or covered with ash.
- Synonym: cinereous
1715–1720, Homer, [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book 23”, in The Iliad of Homer, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: W Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott , →OCLC, page 75:[…] where yet the Embers glow,
Wide o’er the Pyle the sable Wine they throw,
And deep subsides the ashy Heap below.
1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter X, in Great Expectations , volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, , published October 1861, →OCLC, page 151:[…] I saw her sitting on the hearth in a ragged chair, close before, and lost in the contemplation of, the ashy fire.
- (African-American Vernacular) Having dry or dead skin (therefore discolored).
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having the color of ashes
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