- 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?
From Time Magazine Archive
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
From the materials, their wild bees make vast quantities of honey, but their magazines are very often rifled by bears, raccoons, and such like liquorish vermin.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
And wouldst thou seek again to trap me here With liquorish baits, fit to ensnare a brute?
From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton
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