lettucey

English

Alternative forms

• lettucy

Etymology

From lettuce +‎ -y.

Adjective

lettucey (comparative more lettucey, superlative most lettucey)

1. Resembling or characteristic of lettuce.
   • 1937, Georgette Heyer, The unfinished clue, page 6:

     She read a bit in some evening paper about proper dieting, and she's gone all lettucey.

   • 1987, Carol Shields, Swann: a mystery, page 118:

     The flowers and weeds around him have coarsened with new growth, and the trees have a fresh lettucey look — how absurd, how delightful that growth should continue even in the month of December.

   • 2010, Blue Balliett, Brett Helquist, The Calder Game, page 68:

     The leaves were a gentle, lettucey green, and Calder found himself thinking it would be easy, if you wanted to murder someone, to mix a few in with a salad.

Synonyms

• lettucelike