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
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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
Onc't they wuz tadpoles about as big as lickerish drops, an' after while legs growed on 'em.
From The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches by James Whitcomb Riley
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
There was Tommy Gordon in particular, who always had his pockets full of "lickerish" and pep'mints; it was as much as I could do to help asking him.
From Aunt Madge's Story by Sophie May
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