Liquory

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective

1
intoxicated by alcohol; drunk
"Never, do I, at all get liquory / But sticks to cocoa nice and chicory — / Tetotal man!"
2
Resembling alcohol.
"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 […]"

Synonyms

befuddled besotted bibulous blind drunk blotto bosky

Antonyms

Example

"Never, do I, at all get liquory / But sticks to cocoa nice and chicory — / Tetotal man!"

Etymology

From liquor + -y.

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