Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who eats and drinks abundantly; one who gives free indulgence to his appetites.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who gratifies his physical appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who gratifies his
appetites without stint; one given toindulgence in eating and drinking.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who gratifies physical appetites (especially for food and drink) with more than the usual freedom
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Examples
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Every free-liver would not say this, nor think thus — every argument he uses, condemnatory of his own actions, as some would think.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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To a free-liver, as she believes me to be, who has her in his power!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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You will believe I cannot: for how shall I tell him that all his compliments are misbestowed? that all his advice is thrown away? all his warnings vain? and that even my highest expectation is to be the wife of that free-liver, whom he so pathetically warns me to shun?
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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But then, as I have often reflected, how had I known, that a but blossoming beauty, who could carry on a private correspondence, and run such risques with a notorious wild fellow, was not prompted by inclination, which one day might give such a free-liver as myself as much pain to reflect upon, as, at the time it gave me pleasure?
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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I only am in danger: but were I the free-liver I am reported to be, all this could I get over with a wet finger, as the saying is.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Finally, he was no free-liver in the sense in which that objectionable expression is used.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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The first is that the boy was a 'forger'; the second that he was a freethinker; the third that he was a free-liver.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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He, already a free-thinker, was now revealed as a free-liver.
Saint's Progress John Galsworthy 1900
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He, already a free-thinker, was now revealed as a free-liver.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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A free-liver, he could not realize that hungry people should ever think of better food.
His Excellency the Minister Jules Claretie 1876
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