Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British Variant of licorice.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See licorice.
Wiktionary
- n. countable A leguminous plant, Glycyrrhiza glabra, from which a sweet black liquor is extracted and used as a confection and in medicine
- n. uncountable a type of confection made from liquorice extract.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See licorice.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant
- n. deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots
Etymologies
- From Old French licoresse, from Late Latin liquiritia, from Ancient Greek γλυκύρριζα (glukurrhiza, "sweet root"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Tom was a good-natured lad, and, as his master said, very fond of liquorice; but the doctor used to laugh at that (when Tom was not by), saying, "it's very true that Tom cribs my _liquorice_; but I will say this for him, he is very honest about _jalap_ and _rhubarb_, and I have never missed a grain.”
“Tom was a good-natured lad, and, as his master said, very fond of liquorice; but the doctor used to laugh at that (when Tom was not by), saying, "It's very true that Tom cribs my _liquorice_; but I will say this for him, he is very honest about _jalap_ and _rhubarb_, and I have never missed a grain.”
“2 - Ricci brand liquorice is sold in Go Lo stores, Woolworths, and selected chemists.”
“Another solution may be recommended, that of the black liquorice, which is a transparent brown, and naturally hard.”
The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.
“And Bézuquet, labelling liquorice and _sirupus gummi_, resembles an old sea-rover of the Barbary coast.”
“The roots afford liquorice, which is extracted in the same manner as that from the true Spanish liquorice plant, the _Glycyrrhiza glabra_.”
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
“Note other loanwords entering into Latin from Greek that show the same curious loss of g- eg. liquiritia 'liquorice”
“It is often needful to use some soothing, nourishing substance, such as liquorice, boiled with a little camomile, taken, say after meals, while the acid is taken before them: this has an excellent effect.”
“On the beach of the great river they found an abundance of a sweet fragrant root which Mackenzie calls "liquorice".”
“All things considered, I’d still rather that kind of liquorice than the weirdy weirdy sweet stuff you get in the rest of the world, anyday.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘liquorice’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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confectionary
lollies sweets
caramel gets 48 hits
chocolate gets 112 hits
nonpareil 83 hitstaffy, alcorza, chew, chocolate, confectionary, lolly, sweets, blackball, bonbon, brickle, bubblegum, cachou and 137 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Shades of Black
Objects that are black, shades of lack, or something with blackness within.
lampblack, pitch, crow, obsidian, coal, charcoal, soot, midnight, raven, peacock, starless, bible and 22 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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food words
weetabix, blancmange, shandy, meringue, allspice, pavlova, quiche, caster sugar, suet, moonshine, turnip, swede and 93 more...
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The O.U.P. Junior Dictionary Death Row
Another news story about words being removed from a dictionary before their time. See also the list of words added to the dictionary.
carol, cracker, holly, ivy, mistletoe, dwarf, elf, goblin, abbey, aisle, altar, bishop and 137 more...
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the gardener and apothecary's
bryony, chamomile, frond, sweet bay, laurel, monkshood, henbane, hemlock, parsley, rosemary, thyme, lady's mantle and 140 more...
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Mary and Max (2009)
Words from 2009 'Mary and Max' film.
muddy, puddle, birthmark, piggyback, pensive, gumnut, pompom, salvage, takeaway, oven, shed, deliberate and 112 more...
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the herbalist
Started off as herbs and spices, now to herbalry and nature-based drugs of all sorts. Plus beautiful flower names!
frankincense, myrrh, basil, thyme, rosemary, paprika, cardamom, tumeric, caraway, juniper, senna, anise and 57 more...
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they just SOUND beautiful to me
their meaning sometimes may not be that nice though
picturesque, dandelion, verbiage, libertarianism, jeopardize, fleur-de-lis, boudoir, imbroglio, liquorice, vicissitude, sartorial, lacustrine and 23 more...
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chiefly british
windlestraw, boffin, poppet, bloody, motorway, telly, git, tyre, windscreen, zebra crossing, panda car, lorry and 61 more...
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you write such pretty words
words that are pretty.
sparkle, shimmer, haze, sunlight, starlight, mist, illuminate, ocean, sunrise, sunset, serendipity, orchard and 84 more...
Tweets
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qroqqa BrE speakers strongly prefer the ending /-ɪʃ/ to /-ɪs/ (83% in a 2007 survey for the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary).
Aug 4, 2008