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liverish (LIV-er-ish) adjective

1. Resembling liver, especially in color.

2. Ill-natured, grouchy.

[From Middle English, Old English lifer + -ish. From the former belief that such disposition was a symptom of excess secretion of bile due to liver disorder.]

"Even if you'd approached Sunday's Boston Chamber Music Society at Sanders in an absolutely liverish, adversarial state of mind ... it's hard to imagine that you would have stayed that way for long." Richard Buell, A Week's Wanton Chambering, The Boston Globe, Jan 15, 1991.

This week's theme: words for body parts that are used metaphorically.

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