Adjective: high yellow
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more high yellow |
| Superlative | most high yellow |
Sample Sentences
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Now, you gonna get your little narrow, high yellow ass back into the theater and enjoy Soul Plane 2. [2007 October 8, 12:23 from the start, in ...Or Die Trying (The Boondocks), season 2, episode 1, spoken by Granddad (John Witherspoon):]
Adjectives inflected like high yellow
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
After the golden-yellow skin tone of some multiracial people. "High" is usually considered a reference to a social class system in which skin color (and associated ancestries) is a major factor, placing those of lighter skin (with more white ancestry) at the top and those of darker skin at the bottom.