lickerish

American  

[lik-er-ish] / ˈlɪk ər ɪʃ /

Or liquorish

adjective

Archaic.

1. fond of and eager for choice food.

2. greedy; longing.

3. lustful; lecherous.

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lickerish British  

/ ˈlɪkərɪʃ /

adjective

1. lecherous or lustful

2. greedy; gluttonous

3. appetizing or tempting

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Other Word Forms

• lickerishly
  adverb
• lickerishness
  noun

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

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

At sunrise they are driven to water, to make them more lickerish on their return.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax

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

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