a. [f. LIQUOR sb. + -ISH. (An etymologizing sense-perversion of LICKERISH.)] Fond of or indicating fondness for liquor.
1894. S. R. Keightley, Crimson Sign, 312. A rare seaman, but liquorish…. He was born with a thirst.
1899. F. T. Bullen, Log Sea-waif, 270. He turned a liquorish eye upon me.
Hence Liquorishly adv.; Liquorishness.
1789. Emblems of Mortality, p. xxvii. To contemplate the Liquorishness of one Figure of Death, who is secretly sucking through a Reed the Wine from the emptied Cask.
1852. R. S. Surtees, Sponge’s Sp. Tour (1893), 39. That purpose was to try how many silver foxes’ heads full of port-wine Tom could carry off without tumbling, and the old fellow, being rather liquorishly inclined, had never made any objection to the experiment.
