lickerish

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The lexical temptation to extend these appetitive meanings of "lickerish" was very soon satisfied, and the word became a synonym of

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  1. adjective Lascivious; lecherous.
  2. adjective Greedy; desirous.
  3. adjective Archaic Relishing good food.

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  • "Fiend," cried the undaunted maiden, slapping the face of her lickerish captor. —  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • The lexical temptation to extend these appetitive meanings of "lickerish" was very soon satisfied, and the word became a synonym of —  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • STORY THE NINETY-FIRST -- THE OBEDIENT WIFE 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
  • [91 By The Editor 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
 

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  1. Middle English likerous, perhaps from Old French lecheor, lekier; see lecher.

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  1. Formerly also liquorish; a corrupted form (as if from licker or liquor + -ish) of lickerous: see lickerous.
 

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/ˈlɪkərɪʃ/
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