free liver

English

Alternative forms

• free-liver

Noun

free liver (plural free livers)

1. (archaic) A voracious eater and drinker; someone who indulges themselves in eating and drinking.

   Synonym: glutton

   • 1838, Samuel William Langston Parker, The Stomach in Its Morbid States:

     A gentleman, a free liver, indulging in the pleasures of the table, had suffered from symptoms of gastritis for many months, accompanying which he had a large hepatic tumour

   • 1885, Charles Murchison, Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy:

     He was a large corpulent man, who had been a free liver, and had drunk much wine and spirits

Translations

one given to indulgence in eating and drinking

• Bulgarian: чревоугодник (bg) m (črevougodnik)

References

• “free-liver”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.