leekish

comparative more leekish · superlative most leekish

1. 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 — [...]

   1958, William Sansom, The icicle and the sun

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   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.

   2009, Bianca Ryan-Lopez, Corruption and Infected Sin