Bacchuslike

English

Etymology

Bacchus +‎ -like

Adjective

Bacchuslike (comparative more Bacchuslike, superlative most Bacchuslike)

  1. rare spelling of Bacchus-like
    • Ruth D. Wrensch, The Essence of Herbs (page 12)
      Soma, as a Bacchuslike god and at the same time a common name for a plant, […]
    • 1961, W. W. Newcomb, The Indians of Texas: From Prehistoric to Modern Times:
      In the first tent that we visited lay a young Indian of effeminate, Bacchuslike appearance, stretched out on soft buffalo hides, holding a pipe, […]
    • 1950, Roger Lee Heacock, The Ancestors of Charles Clement Heacock, 1851-1914, page 167:
      Then Gale's father learned of the opposing scribe's Bacchuslike tendencies and the next issue of the Enterprise printed a startling expose of the "frequent absences from town" of the editor […]
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