Meaning of greenery-yallery | Babel Free

Definitions

Pertaining to the colors green and yellow as used in the style of late-nineteenth-century Aestheticism; hence, typical of Aestheticism; affected.

Examples

“A greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, / Foot-in-the-grave young man.”

“Nothing greenery-yallery about her. So gay, so correct, so unaffected.”

“[T]he Abu Dhabi TV show Sha’ir al-Maliyun, ‘Millionaire Poet’ […] is more than some greenery-yallery eisteddfod: in a land where rulers attack their enemies with odes, poetry is still portentous and powerful.”

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