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

• lickerishness
  noun
• lickerishly
  adverb

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

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 Bell, William

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

Right through the window—knocked over both them green lights—kicked a box o' lickerish all over the sidewalk—kin you spare one?

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: in Mizzoura by Thomas, Augustus