/ˈlɪvə/, /ˈlɪvɚ/
OriginFrom Middle English lyvere, lyver, from Old English lifer (“liver”), from Proto-West Germanic *libru, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Líeuwer, Lieuwer (“liver”), West Frisian lever (“liver”), Dutch lever (“liver”), German Leber (“liver”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish lever (“liver”) (the last three from Old Norse lifr (“liver”)). Related to live.
- countable, uncountableA large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
“Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.”
- countable, uncountableThis organ, as taken from animals used as food.
“I'd like some goose liver pate.”
“You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken liver.”
“"I should think you've rocked the boat enough already by refusing to eat liver."”
- countable, uncountableA dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
- countable, obsolete, uncountableAny of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.
“He gave his horse some liver of antimony.”
- uncommonSomeone who lives (usually in a specified way).
“Ephori of Sparta, hearing a dissolute liver propose a very beneficial advise unto the people, commaunded him to hold his peace, and desired an honest man to assume the invention of it unto himselfe an”
“a wicked liver may be reclaimed, and prove an honest man[…].”
“Try if life be worth the liver's care.”
- uncommonSomeone who is alive: one of the living.
“When as the wandring Scots and Picthts King Marius had subdude, He gave the Liuers dwellings.”
“Thou king of heaven, which […] Dost see the secret of each livers heart.”
- uncommonSomeone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller.
“They must instantly have been detected by the present Livers that were upon the place.”
“One, John Powle, a Liver on Sasquehanna River.”
“There is no liver in the country so practical.”
- not-comparableOf the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
“His friend Rothwell, who had the use of the best Laveracks for breeding purposes, wrote him that one of his puppies was liver and white.”
- comparative, form-ofcomparative form of live: more live
“Seeing things on a big screen somehow makes them seem liver.”
“[…]manslaughter, liver than camcorder”
- rareFrom or pertaining to Liverpool.
“He was fat, he was round and his car was in the pound. But we loved Liver bloke Jan Molby all the same. Now he's decided to tell us all about his crazy old days as the Lardy Lord of the Liverpool midf”
“‘Your accent has changed!’
‘No, it hasn’t,’ I lied as I had found a cheap voice teacher for elocution lessons to remove my Liver accent.
‘Yes it has! You no longer sound like a female Sir Paul McCartn”
“To Jaye this seemed a strange coupling, Dirk being a fun-loving, hard-drinking and irresponsible Liver Lad, and Liz a serious, sober and very responsible History student who gave Jaye the impression o”
Formslivers(plural) · more Liver(comparative) · most Liver(superlative)