Dictionary

free liver en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (dated) A voracious eater and drinker; someone who indulges themselves in eating and drinking.
   • A gentleman, a free liver, indulging in the pleasures of the table, had suffered from symptoms of gastritis for many months, accompanying which he had a large hepatic tumour 1838, Samuel William Langston Parker, The Stomach in Its Morbid States:
   • He was a large corpulent man, who had been a free liver, and had drunk much wine and spirits 1885, Charles Murchison, Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy:

Forms

Synonyms

glutton

Translations (1)

bg чревоугодник (one given to indulgence in eating and drinking)