ashy
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English asshy, asky, equivalent to ash + -y.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈæʃi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æʃi
Adjective
[edit]ashy (comparative ashier, superlative ashiest)
- Resembling ashes (especially in colour); (of a person’s complexion) unusually pale as a result of strong emotion, illness, etc.
- Synonyms: ashen, cineraceous, cinereous
- 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC[1]:
- 1634 (first performance), Thomas Heywood, Loves Maistresse: Or, The Queens Masque. […], London: […] Robert Raworth, for Iohn Crowch; and are to bee sold by Iasper Emery, […], published 1636, →OCLC, Act IIII:
- Tell her that sicknesse, with her ashie hand,
Hath swept away the beauty from my cheekes,
- 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 11, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, page 126:
- Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep.
- 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 7, in A Wizard of Earthsea, page 123:
- Beyond that black clot the sea lay, pale with last ashy gleam of day.
- Comprising, containing, or covered with ash.
- Synonym: cinereous
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Ruines of Rome”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
- Ye heauenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie
Vnder deep ruines, with huge walls opprest,
- 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book 23”, in The Iliad of Homer, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 75:
- […] where yet the Embers glow,
Wide o’er the Pyle the sable Wine they throw,
And deep subsides the ashy Heap below.
- 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter X, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 151:
- […] I saw her sitting on the hearth in a ragged chair, close before, and lost in the contemplation of, the ashy fire.
- 1991, Edwidge Danticat, “A Wall of Fire Rising”, in Krik? Krak!, New York: Soho Press:
- He lit the paper until it burned to an ashy film.
- (African-American Vernacular) Having dry or dead skin (therefore discolored).
- 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 4, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 22:
- It was summer and his pants were short, so the pickle juice made clean streams down his ashy legs […]
- 2015, Paul Beatty, chapter 11, in The Sellout[2], New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 159:
- After passing it under her runny nose, a skinny chalk-colored girl raised a hand so disgustingly ashy, so white and dry-skinned, that it could only be black.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]having the color of ashes
having dry or dead skin
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