lubric

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  1. Having a smooth surface; slippery; hence, voluble; glib. Then starts she suddenly into a throng Of short thick sobs, whose thund' ring volleys float, And roul themselves over her lubric throat, In panting murmurs. Crashaw, Musick's Duel.
  2. Unsteady; wavering. Through the deep and lubric waves of state and court. Sir H. Wotton, Reliquiæ, p. 208.
  3. Lascivious; wanton; lewd. Why were we hurried down This lubric and adulterate age (Nay, added fat pollutions of our own), To encrease the steaming ordures of the stage? Dryden, Ode to the Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew, l. 63. [Obsolete or rare in all uses.]

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  • "I heard he was considering a career supplying lubric ..." —  Boing Boing
  • What of those sensuous waltzes, those lubric bits of —  Europe After 8:15
  • This lubric and adulterate age! " —  The Grammar of English Grammars
  • Since their names were coupled, though, since he was her declared favourite, where was the particular necessity to proclaim it to the rank and file from the housetops, the fact, namely, that he had shared her bedroom which came out in the witnessbox on oath when a thrill went through the packed court literally electrifying everybody in the shape of witnesses swearing to having witnessed him on such and such a particular date in the act of scrambling out of an upstairs apartment with the assistance of a ladder in night apparel, having gained admittance in the same fashion, a fact the weeklies, addicted to the lubric a little, simply coined shoals of money out of. —  Ulysses
  • He turned his head toward her and literally collided with a pair of lubric eyes under a narrow forehead and thick, straight hair, parted in the middle. —  The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution
 

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  1. from Old French lubrique, slippery, lascivious, French lubrique, lascivious, = Spanish lúbrico = Portuguese Italian lubrico, slippery, lascivious, from Latin lubricus, slippery, uncertain, deceitful.
 

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