sallow
adjective
[ ˈsaləʊ ]
• (of a person's face or complexion) of an unhealthy yellow or pale brown colour.
• "his skin was sallow and pitted"
Similar:
yellowish,
jaundiced,
pallid,
wan,
pale,
waxen,
anaemic,
bloodless,
colourless,
pasty,
pasty-faced,
unhealthy-looking,
sickly,
sickly-looking,
washed out,
peaky,
peakish,
peaked,
like death warmed up,
wabbit,
peely-wally,
etiolated,
lymphatic,
Origin:
Old English salo ‘dusky’, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse sǫlr ‘yellow’, from a base meaning ‘dirty’.
sallow
noun
• a willow tree, especially one of a low-growing or shrubby kind.
• a European moth with dull yellow, orange, and brown patterned wings.
Origin:
Old English salh, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse selja, and Latin salix ‘willow’.
