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English
Etymology
From carrot + -y.
Adjective
carroty (comparative more carroty, superlative most carroty)
- Resembling carrots in colour, taste, etc.
- Synonym: carrotish
1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, ; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:The pupil, thus affectionately invoked, at length came stumbling into the room; a queer, shambling, ill-made urchin, who, by his stunted growth, seemed about twelve or thirteen years old, though he was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a freckled, sunburnt visage, with a snub nose, a long chin, and two peery grey eyes […]
1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter VIII, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, book V, page 101:"All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.
- Containing carrots; made of carrots.
1998, George Englebretsen, Line Diagrams for Logic: Drawing Conclusions:My soup has the positive constitutive property of being carroty, of having carrots in it; of carrotiness; it has the negative constitutive property of lacking meat, of meatlessness.
Translations
resembling carrots in colour, taste, etc.
containing carrots; made of carrots
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