greenery-yallery

Meaning

Adjective

  • Pertaining to the colours green and yellow as used in the style of late-nineteenth-century Aestheticism; hence, typical of Aestheticism; affected.

Origin

  • From green + -ery + nonstandard pronunciation of yellow + -y.

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