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Definitions: Liverish |
LiverishAdjective1. 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: LiverishSynonyms: atrabilious (adj), bilious (adj), dyspeptic (adj), livery (adj). (additional references) |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "liverish": atrabilious bilious dyspeptic liverish ♦ be liverish. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 bolnav de ficat. (various references) желчный (acrimonious, adust, biliary, bilious, choleric, jaundiced, spleenful). (various references) koji pati od bolesti jetre. (various references) irritable (annulled, excitable, fretful, irritable, peckish, techy, tetchy, touchy), enfermo del hígado, deprimido (depressed, down in the mouth). (various references) leversjuk (livery), lättretlig (edgy, excitable, irascible, irritable, livery). (various references) โกรธหรือฉุนเฉียวง่าย, ที่เป็นตับพิการ. (various references) 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) з хворою печінкою, жовчний (acrimonious, adust, atrabilarious, atrabiliary, atrabilious, biliary, bilious, choleric, jaundiced). (various references) mắc bệnh gan, dễ phật ý (livery), đau gan cáu kỉnh (livery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "liverish": liverishness, liverishnesses. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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