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 […]