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leekish en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈliːkɪʃ/

Etymology

From leek + -ish.

Meanings

1. Resembling a leek, especially in colour.
   • 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. 2009, Bianca Ryan-Lopez, Corruption and Infected Sin:
   • 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 — [...] 1958, William Sansom, The icicle and the sun:

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