Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having green gills, as oysters.
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Examples
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And from the green-gilled looks of Maisie Tolliver herself, I diagnosed a long and solitary night with the gin bottle, followed by a fairly ghastly dawn.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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The folk bringing up their jars and buckets to be filled looked as though they felt even worse than he did; green-gilled as mushrooms, bruised from being pitched to and fro in the hold like billiard balls, reeking of renewed seasickness and overflowing chamber pots.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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It too had its windows blacked out (seems a bit extreme for a boat, but you never know when Coach might be kayaking by after escaping Amazonian cannibals), and talking was verboten among the green-gilled Castaways.
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˜Battersea’ Bill Dawes had succumbed to the isolation and the sun like a green-gilled cabin boy on his first cruise, and lost his mind for a while.
DESERT ISLAND SOLITAIRE, OR, A GOOD CIGAR IS A SMOKE • by Nick Logan 2008
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