yellow-skinned

English

Adjective

yellow-skinned (not comparable)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Having yellow skin.
    • 2019, Solomon Habtemariam, Medicinal Foods as Potential Therapies for Type-2 Diabetes and Associated Diseases, page 448:
      Kaempferol was not also detectable in the fruits of yellow-skinned cactus pear[.]"
  2. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Of Far East Asian descent.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 598:
      "Curse you, you yellow-skinned bastard."
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