Sizzling Slush Goldenrod

Imitative-onomatopoeic origin — present-participle of sizzle, with sound-and-action mimicry. As a color modifier, sizzling implies a saturated-and-hot-and-active quality, the bright color of Spanish-tapas-tapa hot-griddle iron-skillet surface-emission. Sits at the bright-and-warm end of the grid, parallel to searing and scorching in usage.

Imitative origin, half-melted-snow. As a color modifier, slush implies a half-melted-snow-and-grey-pavement quality, the visual register of city-pavement-and-thaw-slush hand-half-melted-snow-and-grey-pavement city-pavement-and-thaw-slush-and-Boston-Brooklyn-thaw slush-and-half-melted-snow-and-grey-pavement surfaces under city-pavement-and-thaw-slush-and-Boston-Brooklyn-thaw Boston-and-Brooklyn-and-Edinburgh-thaw urban-thaw-light. Sits at the modifier-and-weather end of the grid, parallel to thaw and flurry in usage.

Solidago, the late-summer wildflower of North American meadows whose tall sprays of small yellow flowers signal the end of the growing season. The color refers to the flower head at full bloom: a warm, slightly muted yellow-orange with the matte finish of small clustered florets. Cooler than mustard, deeper than dandelion. The state flower of Kentucky and Nebraska, a pollinator magnet, and the original native dye for early American homespun.