20 Weird Color Names That Actually Exist

When I was a kid, I loved going through my box of crayons. And the more, the merrier because you would never know when you will need one shade over another. I also loved the funny names some of the colors have. And there are some really weird ones out there too like this list (Part 1, Part 2) of twenty color names that actually exist.

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His dictionary count is a bit off.

If you included medical/science terms it's over a million for the count in English. But current usage has us at 250k, not counting derivatives and historical words. If you include the full lexicon it's somewhere above 750k.
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