leekish

adj
/ˈliːkɪʃ/

Etymology

From leek + -ish.

  1. derived from *lewg- — “to bend
  2. inherited from *lauką
  3. inherited from *lauk
  4. inherited from lēac — “a garden herb, leek, onion, garlic
  5. inherited from leke
  6. suffixed as leekish — “leek + ish

Definitions

  1. 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

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for leekish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA