a. [f. CARROT + -Y1.] Like a carrot in color, red; said of hair. Also, of persons: red-haired.
1696. Tutchin, Pindarick Ode, v. 18.
| Long was his Chin, and carotty his Beard, | |
| His Eyes sunk in, and high his Nose was rear’d. |
1728. Morgan, Algiers, I. iv. 104. I have never met with any North-Briton, Dane, or any other, more carotty and freckled.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Rand., xiv. (1804), 77. I had parted with those carroty locks.
1826. Disraeli, Viv. Grey, VI. i. 276. Long, carroty hair.
b. Comb. as carroty-haired, -headed, -polled.
1795. Wolcott (P. Pindar), Hair Powder, Wks. 1812, III. 285. Poor Carroty-polled Phyllis.
1840. Marryat, Poor Jack, viii. A carroty-headed boy.
1856. Thackeray, Christmas Bks., 251. That carroty-haired Angelica.
