Tangerine
See also: tangerine
English
editEtymology
editFrom French Tanger (Tangier, Morocco) + -ine.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editTangerine
- From, or pertaining to Tangier.
- Of or related to Blackpool Football Club.
- 2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph[1]:
- They may have finished 11 points behind West Ham and lost both league games, conceding eight goals, but the Tangerine dream remains alive. Holloway said: “We won’t get a bigger test than West Ham but we’ve got one chance. If you’d asked me last summer when I lost all those players I’d have said this was a dead duck, but we don’t lie down at this club.”
Translations
editpertaining to Tangier
Noun
editTangerine (plural Tangerines)
- A native or inhabitant of Tangier.
Translations
editinhabitant of Tangier
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