Tangerine

See also: tangerine

English

Etymology

From French Tanger (Tangier, Morocco) +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtænd͡ʒəˌɹiːn/

Adjective

Tangerine

1. From, or pertaining to Tangier.
2. 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

pertaining to Tangier

• French: tangérois (fr) m, tangéroise f
• Galician: tanxerino (gl) m, tanxerina f

Noun

Tangerine (plural Tangerines)

1. A native or inhabitant of Tangier.

Translations

inhabitant of Tangier

• French: Tangérois (fr) m, Tangéroise f
• Galician: tanxerino (gl)

Related terms

• tangelo
• tangerine

Anagrams

• Argentine, antigreen, argentine, intragene