beetrooty
Collocations
5ADJ.
apoplectic, most, thinnest
VERB + BEETROOTY
face
BEETROOTY + NOUN
nose
PREP.
up, with
ADV.
momentarily
Definitions
adj
Resembling or characteristic of beetroot in color, texture, etc.
"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.
The exertion of walking in a tight dress over rough fields made her momentarily more beetrooty.
Containing beetroot.
The soup makes a good starter: Ukrainian barszcz (£4.50) is a rich, beetrooty affair.
Innocent, sandy, smiling, smelling of clove cigarettes and beetrooty hamburgers and a faraway sea.
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3"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.
WiktionaryThe exertion of walking in a tight dress over rough fields made her momentarily more beetrooty.
WiktionarySwelling 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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