lickerish
Americanadjective
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fond of and eager for choice food.
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greedy; longing.
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lustful; lecherous.
adjective
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lecherous or lustful
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greedy; gluttonous
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appetizing or tempting
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of lickerish
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English liker(ous) “pleasing to the taste,” literally, “to a licker” ( see lick, -er 1) + -ish 1
Example Sentences
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Juan in China, a continuation of his picaroon-hero's progress, is longer between laughs, thinned at times to the gin-&-water consistency of the late lightly lickerish Thorne Smith.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gielgud with straw hat and cigar plays Sissal as a lickerish hybrid of Winston Churchill and Malcolm Muggeridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
When first the Hawkers bawl'd 'ith' streets Wild's name, A lickerish longing to my Pallat came; A feast of Wit I look't for, but, alass!
From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by Parker, William Riley
‘Liquorish,’ by catachresis for lickerish = tempting to the appetite, causing one to lick one’s lips.
From Milton's Comus by Bell, William
Our cabin gentlemen had been long enough deprived of fresh meats to make them cast lickerish glances towards their hard-skinned friend, and there was a great smacking of lips the day before he was killed.
From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes
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