beetrooty
English
Etymology
beetroot + -y
Adjective
beetrooty (comparative more beetrooty, superlative most beetrooty)
- Resembling or characteristic of beetroot in colour, texture, etc.
- 1859, Charles Allston Collins, “Our Eye-Witness and the Performing Bull”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round:
- "She's coming out," screamed the smallest boy, with the whitest face, the most beetrooty nose, the thinnest blouse, and the most precocious intellect ever seen or heard of.
- 1862, James Hogg, Florence Marryat (eds), London Society
- The exertion of walking in a tight dress over rough fields made her momentarily more beetrooty.
- 1961, Boris Lavrenev, Margaret Wettlin, N Jochel, The Forty First
- Swelling up with a beetrooty apoplectic rage, the Councillor seized the white silk chair and, swinging it by the arms, banged it violently against the floor […]
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- Containing beetroot.
- 2003, Charles Campion, The rough guide to London restaurants:
- The soup makes a good starter: Ukrainian barszcz (£4.50) is a rich, beetrooty affair.
- 2006, Kate Lyons, The Corner of Your Eye
- Innocent, sandy, smiling, smelling of clove cigarettes and beetrooty hamburgers and a faraway sea.
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