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high liver
noun
, Informal.
- a person who lives extravagantly or luxuriously.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of high liver1
First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences
By adopting the cognomen of Habrodiaitos, or high-liver, he brought upon himself the nickname of Rhabdodiaitos, or brush-man.
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Mouillot is still a high liver, Balivan as distraught as ever, and Duptrain still insists on putting people to sleep.
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If the high-liver knew when to stop eating, how much less sure dyspepsia would be.
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One of the men was an exuberant old high liver, whose name she had read with awe on many a beautiful picture.
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Stubb was a high liver; he was somewhat intemperately fond of the whale as a flavorish thing to his palate.
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