- 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 flat and fertile Ontario and along the fish-flanked coast of Nova Scotia, voters were confronted with liquorish problems last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
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?
From Time Magazine Archive
It is not permitted to ferment more than half a day, because it would not be so liquorish.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
A liquorish sentimentality is the ever-threatening rock upon which the bark of young American novelists goes to pieces.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
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