free liver

plural free livers · alternative free-liver

1. datedA voracious eater and drinker; someone who indulges themselves in eating and drinking.

   He was a large corpulent man, who had been a free liver, and had drunk much wine and spirits

   1885, Charles Murchison, Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy

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   A gentleman, a free liver, indulging in the pleasures of the table, had suffered from symptoms of gastritis for many months, accompanying which he had a large hepatic tumour

   1838, Samuel William Langston Parker, The Stomach in Its Morbid States

   Synonyms: glutton