different between colorado vs greenie

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish colorado

Pronunciation

Noun

colorado (plural colorados)

1. A cigar of medium color and strength.
2. A fish of the species Lutjanus colorado, the Colorado snapper.

Coordinate terms

(cigar): claro, colorado claro, colorado maduro, double claro, double maduro, maduro, oscuro

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese colorado, from colorar (“to color”). Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish colorado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolo??aðo?/

Adjective

colorado m (feminine singular colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas)

1. red, reddish

   Synonyms: roxo, rubio, vermello

2. having color
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 667:

     Et, desque o ouuerõ sacado, estaua o corpo tã yrto que se nõ dobraua a nenh?u cabo, et sua carne muy l?pa et muy colorado, que semellaua viuo

     And, as soon as they took him out, the body was so stiff that it did not bend to any extent, and his flesh was very clean and colorful, to the point that he seemed alive

References

• “colorado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “colorad” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “colorado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “colorado” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “colorado” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Adjective

colorado m (feminine singular colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas, comparable)

1. (Brazil) colored, red

   Synonym: colorido

2. (Brazil, soccer) pertaining to, or related to Sport Club Internacional

Noun

colorado m (plural colorados, feminine colorada, feminine plural coloradas)

1. (Brazil, soccer) a player or supporter of Sport Club Internacional sports team

Spanish

Etymology

From color +? -ado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolo??ado/, [ko.lo??a.ð?o]

Adjective

colorado (feminine colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas)

1. colored
2. red

   Synonym: rojo

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

colorado m (feminine singular colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas)

1. Masculine singular past participle of colorar.

English

Alternative forms

• greeny

Etymology

From green +? -ie.

Pronunciation

Noun

greenie (plural greenies)

1. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, slang, often derogatory) An environmentalist; someone who shows concern for the environment.
   • 2000, Australian Association for Environmental Education, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, Volumes 15-17, page 73,

     People ask me if am I a greenie and I go, ‘No, not in the sense that I chain myself to trees, no I?m not. But in the sense that I am concerned about the environment and do my little bit to help, then yes I am.’

   • 2009, Sean Dooley, Cooking With Baz, Large Print 16pt Edition, page 25,

     ‘And whadda you want?’ the barman spat at me.

     Above his head was a large sign that read ‘Fertilize the Bush – Doze in a Greenie’. I was dressed in a flannelette shirt and army trousers – exactly like the Greenie protestors they?d been battling the previous year.

   Synonym: tree hugger

2. (Australian politics, informal, by extension) A member of the Green Party.
3. (US, Wyoming, derogatory, slang) A person from Colorado; after the color of the Colorado license plate.
   • 2007, James Prosek, Joseph Furia, Steven Hayhurst, Joseph Kingsbery, Tight Lines: Ten Years of the Yale Anglers? Journal, page 140,

     At Alcova, the problem is compounded for the fool or fools when they have greenie license plates and behave like tourists. The growing combative presence in their rear is chalk full of true Wyoming grit.

4. (informal) An unripe fruit.
5. (US, slang) A beginner, a novice; a greenhorn.
   • 1981, William Albert Wilson, On Being Human: The Folklore of Mormon Missionaries, Volumes 60-66, page 9,

     In California a senior companion offered to demonstrate to his new greenie how he succeeded in placing Books of Mormon in people?s houses. The two of them knocked on a door. A woman answered, and the senior companion threw a book past her into the house and then ran, leaving the greenie to stammer out an explanation to the irate woman.

   Synonyms: greenhorn, tyro

6. (informal) A small, green object.
   1. (slang) A blob of nasal mucus; a bogey.
   2. (US, slang) A tablet of amphetamine.
      • 2010, Aaron Skirboll, The Pittsburgh Cocaine Seven: How a Ragtag Group of Fans Took the Fall for Major League Baseball, page 36,

        Feeling down? Pop a greenie. Had a rough night? Pop a greenie. Long road trip? Double header? Need a base hit? The answer for it all was the same: pop a greenie.

        “Greenies were what everyone was doing,” Koch says.

7. (informal) Any of various birds having predominantly green plumage.
   1. The green-headed sunbird, Cyanomitra verticalis, of Africa.
   2. The scaly-breasted lorikeet, Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus, of Australia.
   3. The white-plumed honeyeater, Ptilotula penicillata, of Australia.
8. (informal) The Atlantic thread herring (Opisthonema oglinum), a herring-like fish in the family Clupeidae.
9. (informal) The yellowtail rockfish (Sebastes flavidus), a fish in the family Sebastidae.

   Coordinate term: brownie

See also

• greeny