liquorous

English

Etymology

See lickerish.

Adjective

liquorous (comparative more liquorous, superlative most liquorous)

1. (obsolete) Eagerly desirous.
   • c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv:

     Suſpectles, too ſuſpectles: till the crowde: / (Still liquerous of vntried nouelties) / Impatient with ſeuerer gouernment: / Made ſtrong with Florence: baniſht Altofront.

References

• “liquorous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.