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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Gielgud with straw hat and cigar plays Sissal as a lickerish hybrid of Winston Churchill and Malcolm Muggeridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
‘Liquorish,’ by catachresis for lickerish = tempting to the appetite, causing one to lick one’s lips.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
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 Fairfax Harrison
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 William Holmes McGuffey
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