What does leekish mean?
Leekish means Resembling a leek, especially in colour..
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/ˈliːkɪʃ/ · adjective
Resembling a leek, especially in colour..
Occasionally a church gleams white, its spire thin on a leekish onion of dark grey; and then a small town spreads itself as the trees fall away — [...]
In describing garlic, Coghan contradicts other writers, for example Newton, who claims that it is a "grosse pothearb" that creates "naughty and corrupte iuyce," which in turn engenders a putrefying "leekish choler" in the body.
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Leekish means Resembling a leek, especially in colour..
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Occasionally a church gleams white, its spire thin on a leekish onion of dark grey; and then a small town spreads itself as the trees fall away — [...]
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