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▪ I. liquorish, a.|ˈlɪkərɪʃ| [f. liquor n. + -ish. (An etymologizing sense-perversion of lickerish.)] Fond of or indicating fondness for liquor.
1894S. R. Keightley Crimson Sign 312 A rare seaman, but liquorish... He was born with a thirst. 1899F. T. Bullen Log Sea-waif 270 He turned a liquorish eye upon me. Hence ˈliquorishly adv.; ˈliquorishness.
1789Emblems of Mortality p. xxvii, To contemplate the Liquorishness of one Figure of Death, who is secretly sucking through a Reed the Wine from the emptied Cask. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 39 That purpose was to try how many silver foxes' heads full of port-wine Tom could carry off without tumbling, and the old fellow, being rather liquorishly inclined, had never made any objection to the experiment. ▪ II. liquorish see lickerish, liquorice. |