free liver

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free liver (plural free livers)

  1. (archaic) A voracious eater and drinker; someone who indulges themselves in eating and drinking.
    Synonym: glutton
    • 1838, Samuel William Langston Parker, The Stomach in Its Morbid States:
      A gentleman, a free liver, indulging in the pleasures of the table, had suffered from symptoms of gastritis for many months, accompanying which he had a large hepatic tumour
    • 1885, Charles Murchison, Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy:
      He was a large corpulent man, who had been a free liver, and had drunk much wine and spirits

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