free liver

American  

noun

1. a person who follows a way of life that freely indulges the appetites, desires, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of free liver

First recorded in 1705–15

Example Sentences

A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.

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He was a great horseman and a free liver.

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From his ancestors, most probably the Governor, who, we infer, was a free liver in a tropical climate, he derived the curse of gout.

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Of the same class was Saint Pavin, who was not merely a free liver, but a member of the small but influential free-thinking sect which preceded and gave birth to the Philosophes of the next century.

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Once he had been a jovial fellow, a careless, free liver, towards ladies a gallant cavalier, among men a desperate gambler.

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