- a variation of lickerish.
liquorish
Americanadjective
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The noxious sweetness of many liquorish pumpkin offerings proves them to be agents of regression.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2014
In Nova Scotia, Premier Edgar Nelson Rhodes posed two liquorish problems: No. 1: Are you in favor of the retention of the Nova Scotia Temperance Act?
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In flat and fertile Ontario and along the fish-flanked coast of Nova Scotia, voters were confronted with liquorish problems last week.
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His cheeks were beginning to fall into chaps, his full lips had a liquorish look about them, and bags were beginning to form under his light blue eyes.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
Are its gaieties mere41 febrile imaginings of liquorish dreamers?
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
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