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Answer : TANNED
bronzed, suntanned, tanned – a
(of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun; “a young bronzed Apollo”
Tan someone’s hide – to beat or whip (someone) very badly
SYNONYMS
bronzed, brown, suntanned, blooming, florid, flush, full-blooded, glowing, red, rosy, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine, bloomy, blowsy (also blowzy), blushing, flushed, pink, pinkish, warm, cherubic
birched, cowhided, flagellated, flailed, flogged, hided, horsewhipped, lashed, leathered, rawhided, scourged, slashed, switched, thrashed, whaled, whipped
EXAMPLES
“Grandpa told us that when he was a kid, if he misbehaved at all, his father would tan his backside with a belt”
“The sleeves of his western shirt were rolled up, revealing evenly tanned forearms.”
“We’re all used to seeing tanned models and movie stars.”
ETYMOLOGY
Late Old English tannian “to convert hide into leather” (by steeping it in tannin), from Medieval Latin tannare “tan, dye a tawny color” (c. 900), from tannum “crushed oak bark,” used in tanning leather, probably from a Celtic source (such as Breton tann “oak tree”). The meaning “make brown by exposure to the sun” (as tanning does to hides) first recorded 1520s; intransitive sense also from 1520s. Of persons, not considered an attractive feature until 20c.; in Shakespeare, “to deprive of the freshness and beauty of youth” (Sonnet CXV). As an adjective from 1620s. To tan (someone’s) hide in the figurative sense is from 1660s. Related: Tanned; tanning. German Tanne “fir tree” (as in Tannenbaum) might be a transferred meaning from the same Celtic source.
“bronze color imparted to skin by exposure to sun,” 1749, see tan (v.). Earlier as “substance made of crushed bark used in making leather” (c. 1600). As a simple name for a brownish color, in any context, it is recorded from 1888. The adjective meaning “of the color of tanned leather” is recorded from 1660s. Tan-line attested from 1979.
More Clues
- AMY Tan who wrote “The Joy Luck Club”
- M A H -jongg (game in “The Joy Luck Club”)
- RAY Amy who is one of the Indigo Girls
- IRMA Rombauer who wrote “The Joy of Cooking”
- ROM BAUER Irma who wrote “The Joy of Cooking”
- ROSTEN Humorist Leo who wrote “The Joys of Yiddish,” 1968
- TAN LINE Short excerpt from author Amy’s “The Joy Luck Club”?
- CHAO Rosalind who appeared in The Joy Luck Club
- AMY TAN “The Joy Luck Club” author who toured with Stephen King’s rock band
- WANG Wayne, director of the films The Joy Luck Club and Maid in Manhattan
- MAHJONGG Game played in “The Joy Luck Club”
- TILE Playing piece in “The Joy Luck Club”
- AMAH “The Joy Luck Club” nanny
- TANDEM BIKE *Couple’s two-wheeler (“The Joy Luck Club”)
- DEBUT NOVELS “The Joy Luck Club” and “White Teeth,” e.g.
- DICKINSON Amy who writes the advice column “Ask Amy”
- ALCOTT Amy who won the 1980 U.S. Women’s Open
- LOWELL Amy who posthumously won the Pulitzer for Poetry
- WEAK Make way without Amy who was potently challenged
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