leekish

English

Etymology

From leek +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːkɪʃ/

Adjective

leekish (comparative more leekish, superlative most leekish)

1. Resembling a leek, especially in colour.
   • 1958, William Sansom, The icicle and the sun:

     Occasionally a church gleams white, its spire thin on a leekish onion of dark grey; and then a small town spreads itself as the trees fall away — [...]

   • 2009, Bianca Ryan-Lopez, Corruption and Infected Sin:

     In describing garlic, Coghan contradicts other writers, for example Newton, who claims that it is a "grosse pothearb" that creates "naughty and corrupte iuyce," which in turn engenders a putrefying "leekish choler" in the body.