• Leekish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /ˈliːkɪʃ/

    Origin

    From leek + -ish.

    Full definition of leekish

    Adjective

    leekish

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