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
Example Sentences
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Gielgud with straw hat and cigar plays Sissal as a lickerish hybrid of Winston Churchill and Malcolm Muggeridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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 May, Sophie
‘Liquorish,’ by catachresis for lickerish = tempting to the appetite, causing one to lick one’s lips.
From Milton's Comus by Bell, William
When first the Hawkers bawl'd 'ith' streets Wild's name, A lickerish longing to my Pallat came; A feast of Wit I look't for, but, alass!
From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by Parker, William Riley
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