Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lascivious; lecherous.
- adj. Greedy; desirous.
- adj. Archaic Relishing good food.
- adj. Obsolete Arousing hunger; appetizing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- adj. Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.
- adj. Lecherous; lustful.
- adj. Tempting the appetite; dainty.
GNU Webster's 1913
Etymologies
- Middle English likerous, perhaps from Old French lecheor, lekier; see lecher. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“lickerish" and pep'mints; it was as much as I could do to help asking him.”
“I doubt Marquis Balastro would kidnap you and torture you or offer you lickerish Algarvian lasses to find out what Hadadezer had to say.”
“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.”
“_ Of a man who was married to a woman so lascivious and lickerish, that”
“And yet Madam Choteaux was not a lickerish, or even immodest woman.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I cough sometimes in the winter-weather, and father gives me lickerish -- I mean -- I mean -- he used to.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lickerish’.
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labidometer, labile, lability, labiomancy, labret, labrose, labtebricole, lac, laccolith and 496 more...
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adjectives
amort, propense, aguish, seclusive, pokerish, horrent, stem-winding, indign, obzocky, abnormous, fallow, dividuous and 39 more...
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wajo22's list
signation, genuflection, precosmic, pretemporal, precreative, pre-hexameral, preplanetary, pre-terrestrial, antemundane,
antemundane, signation, genuflection, precosmic, pretemporal, precreative, pre-hexameral, preplanetary, keeperess, trichotillomania, deerstalker, danseur and 99 more...
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Wicked Cool Words
These words have been posted on my vocabulary tumblr, wickedcoolwords.tumblr.com!
miasma, libation, laconic, denigrating, deontic, accinge, liquescent, quagmire, exiguous, dirigible, lambasted, lambaste and 89 more...
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difficult words
ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 256 more...
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Sleazy, Grubby Words
Deceitful, sly, fawning type words setting one on a path of doom and destruction.
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Most Obscure Words
acatalectic, acosmism, acuate, acuminate, adscititious, adytum, akratisma, alieniloquy, allelomorph, allochiria, allodium, alnage and 620 more...
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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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Allographic Homophones
Words that can be pronounced identically but are spelled differently. I've started with unusual or extensive sets. In some of these sets, no one speaker would pronounce them all the same. I've trie...
air, are, ayr, ayre, e'er, ere, err, eyre, heir, apatite, appetite, picnic and 226 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Verbalitis
syncretic
anecdotal, phthisis, serendipitous, slapper, syncretic, sesquipedalian, hysteresis, polt, noyade, crocket, irenic, masquerade and 278 more...
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useful vocab
pysmatic, relentless, storge, preamble, oscillate, itinerary, frolic, frolicsome, abdicate, frolicking, divergent, abnegate and 312 more...
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Old Words, Inkhorn Terms
lickerish, truckle, dogsbody, gambrinous, collywobbles, megrim, jentacular, fatigate, furibund, oblatrant, turgidous, ustulation and 24 more...
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LovedWords
lickerish, casuistry, nitid, sacrosanct, discombobulate, abscond, stochasticity, obfuscate, verisimilitude, pendulous, acquiesce, plethora and 41 more...
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whichbe Greedy, desirous; lecherous. May 12, 2008