lickerish

• “lickerish" and pep'mints; it was as much as I could do to help asking him.”

  Aunt Madge's Story

• “I doubt Marquis Balastro would kidnap you and torture you or offer you lickerish Algarvian lasses to find out what Hadadezer had to say.”

  Rulers of the Darkness

• “Face a good oval, rather full in flesh, forehead square, without particular strength, a nose that was never unaccompanied by good taste and understanding, and mouth a little lickerish; -- the incarnation of the popular idea of a bank-president.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860

• “_ Of a man who was married to a woman so lascivious and lickerish, that”

  Cent nouvelles nouvelles

• “And yet Madam Choteaux was not a lickerish, or even immodest woman.”

  The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress

• “Paul is not a steer, if he is a negro, and Sally is a bouncing, fine looking wench -- with just enough negro in her to make her lickerish.”

  The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress

• “A tray full of hot seal entrails, a bowl of coagulated blood, and putrid fish are not very inviting or lickerish to ordinary mortals, yet they have their analogue in the dish of some farmers who eat a preparation of pig's bowels known as "chitterlings," and in the blood-puddings and Limburger cheese of the Germans.”

  The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants

• “Of a man who was married to a woman so lascivious and lickerish, that I believe she must have been born in a stove or half a league from the summer sun, for no man, however well he might work, could satisfy her; and how her husband thought to punish her, and the answer she gave him.”

  Cent nouvelles nouvelles

• “I cough sometimes in the winter-weather, and father gives me lickerish -- I mean -- I mean -- he used to.”

  Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor

• “The student should carefully distinguish the three words lickerish [tempting to the appetite, causing one to lick one's lips], liquorish (which is really meaningless) and liquorice (= licorice = Lat. glycyrrhiza), a plant with a sweet root.”

  Milton's Comus

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