luscious
[ luhsh-uhs ]
/ ˈlʌʃ əs /
adjective
highly pleasing to the taste or smell: luscious peaches.
richly satisfying to the senses or the mind: the luscious style of his poetry.
richly adorned; luxurious: luscious furnishings.
arousing physical, or sexual, desire; voluptuous: a luscious figure.
sweet to excess; cloying.
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Origin of luscious
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1. See delicious.
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luscious
/ (ˈlʌʃəs) /
adjective
extremely pleasurable, esp to the taste or smell
very attractive
archaic cloying
Word Origin for luscious
C15 lucius, licius, perhaps a shortened form of delicious
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luscious
late 15c., perhaps a variant (with form perhaps influenced by Old French luxure, lusure) of Middle English licius "delicious" (c.1400), which is perhaps a shortening of delicious, but OED is against this. Related: Lusciously; lusciousness.
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