Peachy means soft pinkish orange in colour, or splendid. A peachy glow, peachy tones, everything is peachy.
The colour sense is used most in cosmetics and paint. The other is American and cheerfully ironic: saying everything is peachy nearly always means it is not, and the word carries a sarcasm that just peachy makes explicit.
1adjectivepeachySoft pinkish orange in colour, or splendid.
“She painted the bedroom a warm peachy colour to match the curtains.”
peachy is a colour, or a quality.
Middle English
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English
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English, today
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From peach + -y. peach comes from Middle English peche. From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (“Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogȝe, from Old English persoc, ultimately from the same Latin root above.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA