singed

singed

slang Mildly sunburned. I could feel myself starting to get singed, so I moved my towel under one of the large umbrellas dotted around the beach. Make sure you wear your sunscreen! I don't want any of you coming home singed, OK?
See also: singe
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

singed

verb
See scorched
See also: singe
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • catch the sun
  • towel down
  • toweling
  • scorch
  • scorched
  • Kentucky fried
  • towel off
  • have a couple
  • have a few
  • have had a few
References in periodicals archive
All four of her pads were burnt off and the fur on her face, tummy and legs was singed - she was luckyLuka Atkinson
The Egyptian minister pledges that his country would respect agreements singed with Jordan, noting that developing the Zohr gas field in the Egyptian territorial waters will benefit both countries.
Minister of Human Rights Ezzuddin al-Asbahi and Head of Qatari National Committee for Human Rights Ali Bin Sumaikh al-Marri singed the memo.
After making the singed yarn samples according to the above cited machine setting they were tested for evaluation of their tensile properties adopting the standards of ASTM 2008 as given below.
Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) and President Sports Board Mian Riaz Hussain Pizdaza singed the MoU with the Deputy Prime Minister Mauritius Dr.
Russian publication house "Eksmo", which is a leading book publisher in Russia and one of the largest in Europe, which controls about 20% of Russian book market have singed Purple Turtle to publish Purple Turtle Books in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
Muscat: Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) and three governmental ministries yesterday singed five social investment agreements worth RO1.5 million.
Similar articles will be singed with the same parameters (repeatability).
Summary: ABU DHABI - A joint United Arab Emirates-France military exercise has started in the UAE as part of the common defense treaty singed by the two countries.
Half the room was singed." Sounds like a good night.
When discussing the work she performed in this collection, translator Tess Gallagher remarks that the poems are like lightning, leaving readers "singed and stricken but lifted by their illuminations." Ursu's acclaim has spread across the world, and she is recognized in her Romanian homeland as a Knight of Arts and Literature, the nation's highest cultural honor.
The singed fluff on the fabric surface was manually removed with brush after singeing.
The number of MoUs singed in 2007 in the third edition of Vibrant Gujarat increased to 363 with total investments worth 2,050 billion rupees while the number of MoUs singed in 2009 jumped to 3446.
John, 50, called me in when Brisbane Laundrette in Greenock offered just pounds 50 to cover the cost of 10 pairs of socks, which came out singed and half the size they should be.