liquorous
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See lickerish.
Adjective[edit]
liquorous (comparative more liquorous, superlative most liquorous)
- (obsolete) Eagerly desirous.
- c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv:
- Suſpectles, too ſuſpectles: till the crowde: / (Still liquerous of vntried nouelties) / Impatient with ſeuerer gouernment: / Made ſtrong with Florence: baniſht Altofront.
References[edit]
- “liquorous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.