liquory

English

Etymology

liquor + -y

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪkəɹi

Adjective

liquory (comparative more liquory, superlative most liquory)

  1. intoxicated by alcohol; drunk
    • 1860, John Diprose, The red, white & blue monster song book:
      Never, do I, at all get liquory / But sticks to cocoa nice and chicory — / Tetotal man!
  2. Resembling alcohol.
    • 1985, Tom Maresca, Mastering wine, page 146:
      You have to intensify intellectually your experience of these wines along the lines I suggest to you: the tannin diminishing its direct impact, the fruit coming forward and its flavor maturing, growing a bit liquory []

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