leekish
adj/ˈliːkɪʃ/
Etymology
Definitions
Resembling a leek, especially in colour.
- 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 — [...]
- 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.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA