Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
licorice .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
licorice .
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- noun countable A
leguminous plant , Glycyrrhiza glabra, from which asweet black liquor is extracted and used as aconfection and inmedicine - noun uncountable a type of
confection made from liquorice extract.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant
- noun deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tom was a good-natured lad, and, as his master said, very fond of liquorice; but the doctor used to laugh at that (when Tom was not by), saying, "It's very true that Tom cribs my _liquorice_; but I will say this for him, he is very honest about _jalap_ and _rhubarb_, and I have never missed a grain."
Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820
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Tom was a good-natured lad, and, as his master said, very fond of liquorice; but the doctor used to laugh at that (when Tom was not by), saying, "it's very true that Tom cribs my _liquorice_; but I will say this for him, he is very honest about _jalap_ and _rhubarb_, and I have never missed a grain."
Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820
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2 - Ricci brand liquorice is sold in Go Lo stores, Woolworths, and selected chemists.
Cheeseburger Gothic » The Ladies Blue Room. Or something. 2010
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Another solution may be recommended, that of the black liquorice, which is a transparent brown, and naturally hard.
The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. Horace Petherick 1879
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And Bézuquet, labelling liquorice and _sirupus gummi_, resembles an old sea-rover of the Barbary coast.
Tartarin On The Alps Alphonse Daudet 1868
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The roots afford liquorice, which is extracted in the same manner as that from the true Spanish liquorice plant, the _Glycyrrhiza glabra_.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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Note other loanwords entering into Latin from Greek that show the same curious loss of g- eg. liquiritia 'liquorice'
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It is often needful to use some soothing, nourishing substance, such as liquorice, boiled with a little camomile, taken, say after meals, while the acid is taken before them: this has an excellent effect.
Papers on Health John Kirk
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On the beach of the great river they found an abundance of a sweet fragrant root which Mackenzie calls "liquorice".
Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892
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All things considered, I’d still rather that kind of liquorice than the weirdy weirdy sweet stuff you get in the rest of the world, anyday.
qroqqa commented on the word liquorice
BrE speakers strongly prefer the ending /-ɪʃ/ to /-ɪs/ (83% in a 2007 survey for the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary).
August 4, 2008