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liverish

[ liv-er-ish ]

adjective

  1. resembling liver, live, especially in color.
  2. having a liver live disorder; bilious.
  3. disagreeable; crabbed; melancholy:

    to have a liverish disposition.



liverish

/ ˈlɪvərɪʃ /

adjective

  1. informal.
    having a disorder of the liver
  2. disagreeable; peevish
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈliverishness, noun
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Other Words From

  • liver·ish·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of liverish1

First recorded in 1730–40; liver 1 + -ish 1
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Example Sentences

All four of them — and I — demolished several skewers of grilled chicken hearts drizzled with cilantro chimichurri, a sauce not traditionally Brazilian but perfect with the dark, slightly liverish hearts.

The next morning I woke shaking, liverish and a translucent shade of green.

Grilled and sliced, they lent an agreeably liverish swagger to a strikingly composed salad landscaped with red beet purée, pickled Satsuma, pistachios and leaves of escarole and arugula dressed in mustard-seed vinaigrette.

These included Thomas Hiram Holding, who founded the National Camping Club in 1906 as a prophylactic against the kind of modern lifestyle that was apt to turn a young man liverish.

Breakfast is so proverbially dismal, that dismalness becomes good form; humanity feels silent and liverish, so it grudges Providence its due, for it cannot return thanks for the precocious blessings of the day.

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