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 […]

Synonyms

• (intoxicated by alcohol): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (resembling alcohol): liquorlike

Hyponyms

• (resembling alcohol): beerish, beerlike, beery, vodkalike