Also 6 whitty. [f. WHITE a. + -Y1 2.] = WHITISH.
1593. Q. Eliz., Boeth., II. met. iii. 26. Whan Φebus … the light to spred begins, The star dimed … Pales her whitty lookes.
1862. C. P. Smyth, Three Cities in Russia, II. 139. Lofty rooms of a whity style of decoration.
1897. J. Hocking, Birthright, xiii. She fixed her whitey, shining eyes upon me.
b. esp. (quasi-adv.) with other adjs. (or adj. with sbs.) of color. See also WHITY-BROWN.
1856. De Quincey, Confess., Wks. 1862, I. 139. The insipid whity-grey bread of towns.
1879. E. O’Donovan, Merv Oasis (1882), I. 311. The Shah’s yacht … is painted of a dirty whity-yellow colour.
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 575. A great sedum, with a grand head of whity-pink flower.
