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Bacchuslike en · ADJ

Etymology

From Bacchus + -like.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, rare) rare spelling of Bacchus-like
   alt of Bacchus-like
   • Soma, as a Bacchuslike god and at the same time a common name for a plant, […] Ruth D. Wrensch, The Essence of Herbs (page 12)
   • Then Gale's father learned of the opposing scribe's Bacchuslike tendencies and the next issue of the Enterprise printed a startling expose of the "frequent absences from town" of the editor […] 1950, Roger Lee Heacock, The Ancestors of Charles Clement Heacock, 1851-1914, page 167:
   • In the first tent that we visited lay a young Indian of effeminate, Bacchuslike appearance, stretched out on soft buffalo hides, holding a pipe, […] 1961, W. W. Newcomb, The Indians of Texas: From Prehistoric to Modern Times:

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