"ashy" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈæʃi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ashy.wav [Southern-England] Forms: ashier [comparative], ashiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -æʃi Etymology: From Middle English asshy, asky, equivalent to ash + -y. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|asshy}} Middle English asshy, {{af|en|ash|-y|id2=adjectival}} ash + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} ashy (comparative ashier, superlative ashiest)
  1. Resembling ashes (especially in colour); (of a person’s complexion) unusually pale as a result of strong emotion, illness, etc. Synonyms: ashen, cineraceous, cinereous Translations (having the color of ashes): tuhkanvärinen (Finnish), cincento (Galician), aschfahl (German), cineraceus (Latin), cinereus (Latin), asshy (Middle English), popielaty (Polish), cenușiu (Romanian), cinéreo (Spanish), ceniciento (Spanish), askig (Swedish), askfärgad (Swedish), askgrå (Swedish)
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  2. Comprising, containing, or covered with ash. Synonyms: cinereous
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  3. (African-American Vernacular) Having dry or dead skin (therefore discolored). Translations (having dry or dead skin): ziemisty (Polish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ashily, ashiness, ashy-headed goose, ashy-headed laughingthrush, ashy minivet, ashy prinia, ashy silktassel, ashy tit, ashy woodpecker, ashy woodswallow

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "having dry or dead skin",
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    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Middle English translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
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      "word": "ashily"
    },
    {
      "word": "ashiness"
    },
    {
      "word": "ashy-headed goose"
    },
    {
      "word": "ashy-headed laughingthrush"
    },
    {
      "word": "ashy minivet"
    },
    {
      "word": "ashy prinia"
    },
    {
      "word": "ashy silktassel"
    },
    {
      "word": "ashy tit"
    },
    {
      "word": "ashy woodpecker"
    },
    {
      "word": "ashy woodswallow"
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      "name": "af"
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    {
      "form": "ashier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
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          "text": "Still is he sullein, still he lowres and frets, / Twixt crimson shame, and anger ashie pale,",
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          "ref": "1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 11, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter IX, page 126:",
          "text": "Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep.",
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          "word": "ashen"
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          "ref": "1720, Homer, “Book XXIII”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 75:",
          "text": "[W]here yet the Embers glow, / Wide o’er the Pyle the sable Wine they throw, / And deep subsides the ashy Heap below.",
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          "text": "[…] I saw her sitting on the hearth in a ragged chair, close before, and lost in the contemplation of, the ashy fire.",
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          "text": "He lit the paper until it burned to an ashy film.",
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "having the color of ashes",
      "word": "tuhkanvärinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "sense": "having the color of ashes",
      "word": "cincento"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "having the color of ashes",
      "word": "aschfahl"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "sense": "having the color of ashes",
      "word": "cineraceus"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "having the color of ashes",
      "word": "cinereus"
    },
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      "lang_code": "enm",
      "sense": "having the color of ashes",
      "word": "asshy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "having the color of ashes",
      "word": "popielaty"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "having the color of ashes",
      "word": "cenușiu"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "having the color of ashes",
      "word": "cinéreo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "having the color of ashes",
      "word": "ceniciento"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "having the color of ashes",
      "word": "askig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "having the color of ashes",
      "word": "askfärgad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "having the color of ashes",
      "word": "askgrå"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "having dry or dead skin",
      "word": "ziemisty"
    }
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}

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