liquorous

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English

Etymology

See lickerish.

Adjective

liquorous (comparative more liquorous, superlative most liquorous)

(obsolete) Eagerly desirous.
- c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: V S 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

“liquorous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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