greenfaced
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greenfaced (comparative more greenfaced, superlative most greenfaced)
- Having a green face or appearance.
- 1835, Richard Hay, James Maidment, Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn, page 29:
- Where greenfaced garden set att Flora's feet,
Makes Nature's beauty quick Apelles greet...
- 1949, John Dos Passos, “In The Field”, in The Grand Design, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, section II (The Ship of State), page 140:
- It was already late and they had to start for Raleigh with their mouths full of roastbeef to catch the plane, leaving Sally sour and silent and greenfaced to putter in the kitchen and to keep an eye on the kids.
- 1987, Jack Kerouac, Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three, page 33:
- Doctor Sax bangs his knotty cane on the door of an Isadora Duncan-type party in the Castle in the Twenties when the batty lady owned it, when they see who's at the door all greenfaced and leering and blazing-maniac-eyed they scream and faint […]
- 2008, Mina A. A., Road Atlas to Love, page 90:
- “This is ungracious! You better mind your own business,” he whispers almost greenfaced.
- 2010, Alan Cohen, A Daily Dose of Sanity: A Five-Minute Soul Recharge for Every Day of the Year, page 19:
- Quite a few of us made trips to the rail, and by the time the squall abated and we reached shore, numerous would-be sailors were greenfaced and swore to take the plane next time.