Meaning

2 senses
  1. Like liver.

  2. Queasy, liverish.

More definitions
  • suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress

Examples

1 sentences
  1. With their boldly coloured liveries, the trains that roll into Zurich Central Station are clean and, above all, on time.

    deFarbenprächtig, sauber und vor allem pünktlich rollen die Züge in den gediegenen Hauptbahnhof in Zürich. — al_ex_an_der

Origin

From Middle English *livery, from Old English lifriġ (“relating to the liver, livery”), eq

From Middle English *livery, from Old English lifriġ (“relating to the liver, livery”), equivalent to liver + -y.

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Forms

more livery, most livery
Comparativemore livery Lesson
Superlativemost livery Lesson

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress:biliousliverish

Word family

1 related words
Relatedliver

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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