luscious

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  1. adjective Sweet and pleasant to taste or smell: a luscious melon. See Synonyms at delicious.
  2. adjective Having strong sensual or sexual appeal; seductive.
  3. adjective Richly appealing to the senses or the mind: a luscious, vivid description.

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  • Needless to say, this behavior is soon corrected and, in a short time, only too eager now to be off the slaver's chain, they are displaying themselves, and proposing themselves, luscious, eager, ready, begging merchandise, to prospective buyers. —  Magicians of Gor
  • The sickly prickles were itching through the City, and, like all Disease, they enjoyed the poorest people first, leaving the rich for a luscious fat dessert. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
  • The smell of the luscious, exotic foods, brought from all over Ansalon by worshipful pilgrims or purchased in the huge open - air markets of cities as far away as Xak Tsaroth, made Denubis remember that he had not eaten since morning. —  Time of the Twins
  • Yet, as I looked upon her, now slumped down, unconscious, on the leather, naught but a pathetic captive, I could not help but remark how maddeningly luscious were her small curves. —  Fighting Slave Of Gor
  • "You are luscious, and tempting, " I said. —  Mercenaries Of Gor
 

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juicy ·  succulent ·  delicious ·  lush ·  savory ·  ripe ·  creamy ·  tempt ·  voluptuous ·  lovely ·  delectable ·  plump
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  1. Middle English lucius, alteration of licious, perhaps short for delicious, delicious; see delicious.

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  1. Early modern English lushious (in this form apparently irreg. from lush + -ious), also lussyouse (Palsgrave), i. e. *lussious, as if orig. *lustious, from lusty, pleasant, delicious, + -ous; the word, thus provided with a suffix, assuming a more distinctive L. form and spelling. But the formation is uncertain. The conjectured derivation from delicious and that from luxurious are both improbable. Cf. lush , a., 3.
 

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