Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Jealousy.
Wiktionary
- n. colloquial Envy, jealousy, covetousness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)
Etymologies
- From the association of envy with the color green. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Dr. Cheesboro was one of these, and the green-eyed monster made him, in the convictions of Taylor, the especial favorite of his wife.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘green-eyed monster’.
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Open List: Greens
A lits of greens: cooked leafy vegetables; pigments, paint names, compound words, etc; words and phrases that pertain to or contain "green". Please add your favorites!
See this list f...greenery, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, green shoots, viridian green, malachite green, sap green, green grocer, radish greens, beet greens, spring green and 282 more...
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green phrases/ words
green,how its used
green acres, green activist, green alder, green-and-gold, green and pale, green and wan, green anole, green apron, green architecture, green arrow, green ash, green audit and 393 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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chromatic phrases
blue movie, brown study, purple prose, rosy scenario, golden mean, eminence grise, white nights, bronze age, silver bullet, orange juice, black death, technicolor yawn and 188 more...
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