vomit green
- noun
- Slang
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- The new uniforms were such a bright vomit green that they hurt my eyes.
Examples
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He painted the walls a hideous shade of vomit green that everyone disliked.
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No one wanted the vomit green sweater left at the sale.
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What a shocking choice of vomit greens for the logo!
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I can't believe they painted the walls vomit green!
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The new uniforms were such a bright vomit green that they hurt my eyes.
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He painted the walls a hideous shade of vomit green that everyone disliked.
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No one wanted the vomit green sweater left at the sale.
Synonyms
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A yellow color with a little green
A yellowish green color that looks sour like vinegar
A light green color that looks partly yellow
How Unpleasant
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines a concrete noun for a substance ('vomit') with a colour adjective ('green') to denote a shade resembling that substance, so its meaning is directly inferable from the parts. Although colloquial, this descriptive color-noun composition follows common semantic patterns (e.g., 'blood red', 'mud brown') and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Vomit green comes from a simple image: the word vomit and the colour green make you picture the bright, sick green of real vomit, so the phrase means 'a very bright, unpleasant shade of green'.