free liver
English
Alternative forms
Noun
free liver (plural free livers)
- (archaic) A voracious eater and drinker; someone who indulges themselves in eating and drinking.
- Synonym: glutton
- 1838, Samuel William Langston Parker, The Stomach in Its Morbid States:
- A gentleman, a free liver, indulging in the pleasures of the table, had suffered from symptoms of gastritis for many months, accompanying which he had a large hepatic tumour
- 1885, Charles Murchison, Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy:
- He was a large corpulent man, who had been a free liver, and had drunk much wine and spirits
Translations
one given to indulgence in eating and drinking
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References
- “free-liver”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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