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👉 Silvery-cheeked is a type of organism with smooth, shiny skin that appears blue or green in color.

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👉 Silvery is a color that appears when light interacts with silver particles, resulting in a shiny appearance.

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👉 The term "silvery" refers to a substance that has a high percentage of silver atoms in its crystal lattice. This property is often associated with certain metals such as copper and nickel, which are commonly used in various applications including jewelry, electronics, and construction. Silvery substances also have a low melting point and are generally more stable than other metals.

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👉 Silvery-brown is a color that comes from the presence of iron in the body, which is found in the skin and nails. It's characterized by its light gray color and can be found in many different parts of the body such as the skin, nails, hair, and teeth.

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👉 Right then, settle yourselves down, let’s tackle a rather pretty, and frankly, rather needlessly ornate phrase – "

avourly cheeked.

‍🥳." (Okay, that last grinning face emoji was purely for dramatic effect. Let's just stick to the word itself.) 3

Now, I’ve spent years dissecting this sort of thing. Frankly, there isn’t a straightforward, bloody good origin for it. That is what makes it interesting! Historically, and here's where you start to get into some rather prickly territory, the turn-of-the-20th century saw this creep up in the diaries and letters of a gaggle of absolutely dreadful Edwardian young women. These were the sort who described boys as being positively... luminous. You know, all that blushing, pretty-boy stuff. Essentially, it started as an affectation—a little bit of embroidered, frankly rather desperate, prettyness. People wanted to describe a boy's face with the almost unbelievable sheen of youth and, well, want . It was meant to be, you see, delicately suggestive, but not exactly…explicit. Think of the most coy young maid in a Victorian painting. There is an undercurrent of that. The term itself is a bit of a bastard. "Swarthy cheeked" would have been perfectly sensible and descriptive. But no, it had to be... avourly. . It’s

👉 Okay, settle in, settle in. Let’s tackle this… rather delightfully peculiar piece of Anglo-Saxon vernacular: 

“​±ilvery brown.”

Now, before you immediately reach for the furrowed brow and mutter something about a badger sighting gone terribly, terribly rural, let me assure you – it isn't actually about badgers. Unless, perhaps, the badger in question specifically has that unfortunate shade of hue. Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some sort of badger-obsessed secret society around here. What we are dealing with here is a very, very old British euphemism for... (lean closer… this needs to go into your overdraft of weirdness) …shit. Seriously. It dates back at the very latest to the early 18th century, and it seems like someone, somewhere – probably a very stuffy gentleman who absolutely refused to utter the actual word – decided that "argy bargy," or even just plain, good, solid shit, was simply too… pedestrian. Too frankly vulgar. So they weaponised beige. You see, in the past, describing bodily waste with the actual term, well, it was a bit like shouting your most embarrassing secrets from the rooftops. People were squeamish and discreet (and frankly, probably suffering from cholera. Let's not dwell). Hence, the rise of circumlocution! To avoid saying the outright word you needed