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leekish

leekish

English

Adjective

leekish (comparative more leekish, superlative most 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.