Variations of gray or grey include achromatic grayscale shades, which lie exactly between white and black, and nearby colors with low colorfulness.he color brown is itself is a dark shade of orange. Brown colors also include dark shades of rose, red, and amber. Pink colors include light tones of rose, red, and orange. These tones of pink become warm grays when they are mixed with gray.
Top Definition. shortsighted. 1. dim-witted/dum/etc. 2. with bad distance vision: unable to see clearly objects that are far away. 1. Anonymous is so shortsighted.. 2. Anonymous is so shortsighted..
I grabbed this one because I figured it would be a quick and easy answer. I figured wrong. My usual word and phrase origin sources all came up dry on jaywalking - except for Old Faithful, the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED gives this definition for jaywalking: A pedestrian who crosses the street without regard to traffic regulations.. It gives this cite from the June, 1927 edition of Harper's: the Bostonian ... has reduced 'a pedestrian who crosses streets in disregard of traffic signals' to the compact 'jaywalking.'.