Found 1 hit - Term: to be off color, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
off \off\, prep.
not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed;
two miles off the shore. --addison.
1913 webster
off hand. see offhand.
off side
football, out of play; -- said when a player has got in
front of the ball in a scrimmage, or when the ball
has been last touched by one of his own side
behind him.
to be off color,
a to be of a wrong color.
b to be mildly obscene.
to be off one's food or to be off one's feed, colloq.
to have no appetite; to be eating less than usual.
1913 webster
see also:
off hand offhand off side to be off color to be off one's food to be off one's feed
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