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Liverish

Definitions: Liverish

Liverish

Adjective

1. Suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress.

2. Irritable as if suffering from indigestion.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Liverish

Synonyms: atrabilious (adj), bilious (adj), dyspeptic (adj), livery (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Liverish

"Liverish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Liverish" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)66.67%2245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Liverish

Expressions using "liverish": atrabilious bilious dyspeptic liverish be liverish. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Liverish

Language Translations for "liverish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

idhnak (grumpy, ornery, peevish, petulant, querulous, quick tempered, sorehead, testy, vixenish, waspish). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مريض الكبد, ‏مريض بالكبد. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

раздразнителен (bad tempered, chippy, choleric, edgy, excitable, explosive, fretful, gingery, ill, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, irascible, irritable, livery, nervous, nervy, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, raspy, ratty, snappish, stroppy, techy, tetchy, touchy, vinegary), който боледува от черен дроб, кисел (acetous, acid, acidulated, acidulous, crabbed, crabby, disgruntled, grouchy, grumpy, humpy, ill-humored, ill-humoured, livery, peeved, pettish, petulant, querulous, sour, tart, vinegar, vinegary), без настроение (livery, off color, off colour, out of humor, out of humour, out of sorts, petulant, spiritless, washed out). (various references)

   

Czech

  

roztrpèený (embittered). (various references)

   

French

  

qui a mal au foie, grincheux. (various references)

   

German

  

mürrisch (cantankerous, crabby, crotchety, crusty, dour, fractious, glum, glumly, grumpy, morose, morosely, peevish, sulky, sullen, sullenly, surly, testy). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מדוכא (blue, dejected, depressed, down, down in the mouth, gloomy, hypochondriac, morbid), עצבני (edgy, fidgety, fretful, in a stew, irritable, jerky, jumpy, nervous, peevish, short, snappish, testy, uptight), חולה כבד. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rosszkedvû (bad tempered, be off his rocker, bloody minded, disgruntled, glum, grumpy, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, in a bad temper, Moody, morose, splenetic), májbajos, epés (acrimonious, bilious, caustic, jaundiced, venomous, virulent). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sofferente di fegato. (various references)

   

Manx

  

friogganagh (bad-tempered, bristly, cantankerous, crabby, echinoid, edgy, finned, finny, offended, prickly, ratty, setaceous, stickleback, touchy), aaneagh (hepatic, liver). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iverishlay

   

Romanian

  

bolnav de ficat. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

желчный (acrimonious, adust, biliary, bilious, choleric, jaundiced, spleenful). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

koji pati od bolesti jetre. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

irritable (annulled, excitable, fretful, irritable, peckish, techy, tetchy, touchy), enfermo del hígado, deprimido (depressed, down in the mouth). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

leversjuk (livery), lättretlig (edgy, excitable, irascible, irritable, livery). (various references)

   

Thai

  

โกรธหรือฉุนเฉียวง่าย, ที่เป็นตับพิการ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sinirli (apoplectic, apoplectical, bristly, choleric, discomposedly, edgy, high strung, hot-blooded, hot-headed, huffish, huffy, ill-conditioned, in a pet, irate, ireful, irritable, jumpy, mad, nervous, nervy, on edge, out of humor, out of humour, peeved, pissed off, ratty, shirty, short tempered, sinewed, sinewy, spunky, testy, uptight, waxy, wild, wrought up), huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

з хворою печінкою, жовчний (acrimonious, adust, atrabilarious, atrabiliary, atrabilious, biliary, bilious, choleric, jaundiced). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

mắc bệnh gan, dễ phật ý (livery), đau gan cáu kỉnh (livery). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Liverish

Derivations

Words beginning with "liverish": liverishness, liverishnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Liverish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Leversha, licerish, liebish, liveish, Liveras, liverishly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Liverish

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-i-l-r-s-v"

-1 letter: liviers, shrivel.

-2 letters: elvish, ervils, hirsel, hirsle, livers, livier, livres, relish, shiver, shrive, silver, sliver, virile.

-3 letters: ervil, evils, heils, heirs, herls, hires, hives, ivies, lehrs, liers, liver, lives, livre, riels, riles, rishi, rives, shiel, shier, shire, shive, siver, slier, veils, viers, viler, vires, virls.

-4 letters: elhi, evil, heil, heir, herl, hers, hies, hili.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-i-l-r-s-v"
 

+2 letters: chivalries, shriveling, silverfish.

 

+3 letters: shrivelling, silversmith.

 

+4 letters: liverishness, shrievalties, silverfishes, silversmiths.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Liverish


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 76 65 72 69 73 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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