Etymology From Middle English *salowy, from Old English *saluwiġ (“dark-coloured, yellowish”) (attested in saluwiġfeþera, saluwiġpād (“having dark feathers”)), equivalent to sallow + -y.
1
Of a sallow tinge; yellowish.
He ^([sic]) skin was a sallowy yellow shade and her hair had been dyed black for a film.2016, Mary S. Lovell, The Riviera Set:
sallowy
adj
Etymology From sallow (“goat willow”) + -y.
1
Having many sallows.
1859-85, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King He dreamed; but Arthur with a hundred spears / Rode far, till o'er the illimitable reed, / And many a glancing plash and sallowy isle