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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From be- (“at, on, upon”) + yellow + -ed.
Pronunciation
Adjective
beyellowed (comparative more beyellowed, superlative most beyellowed)
- Covered or tinted with yellow colour.
1899, One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories:The waggoner hearing this piteous appeal come out of the casier, jumped off the horse much frightened, and called the servants and his master, and they opened the casier, and found the poor prisoner all smeared and be-yellowed with eggs, cheese, milk, and more than a hundred other things, indeed it would have been hard to say which there was most of, — in such a pitiable condition was the poor lover.
1924, Jessie Mothersole, The Saxon Shore, page 85:Now on my right there was nothing but marshes for miles, right away to Birchington in Thanet; and butter-cup-beyellowed marshes they were, dotted with sheep and threaded with innumerable waterways, and with, oh, such a big, big sky outstretched above them […]
1995, Arno Schmidt, Nobodaddy's Children, page 65:And whistling, I gazed at the lovely “collected” maps and beyellowed documents, and arranged them in the compartments of my chest, carefully laying the button, wrapped in tissue paper, with the rest.
2013, Olivia Manning, The Great Fortune: The Balkan Trilogy 1:His tie, bought for him years before by Dollie, who had admired its 'angelic blue', was now so blotched and be-yellowed by spilt food, it was no colour at all.