Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Variant spellings of lickerous, etc.
  • Liquid; like liquor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Eagerly desirous. See lickerish.

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  • adjective obsolete Eagerly desirous.

Etymologies

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See lickerish.

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Examples

  • I am already, thought I, half roasted, and my lardons will be the cause of my mischief; for these devils are very liquorous of lardons, according to the authority which you have of the philosopher Jamblicus, and Murmault, in the Apology of Bossutis, adulterated pro magistros nostros.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • I am already, thought I, half roasted, and my lardons will be the cause of my mischief; for these devils are very liquorous of lardons, according to the authority which you have of the philosopher Jamblicus, and Murmault, in the Apology of Bossutis, adulterated pro magistros nostros.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Who would have guessed, when he was a boy rowdying in a millhouse in Vigor Church, that one day he would be here on the edge of the land, drinking in the liquorous scents and sounds and sights of the life of the sea.

    Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

  • They were all boisterous and all of them were liquorous except Harold, who drank little and remained silent and uncommunicative.

    The Eagle's Heart Hamlin Garland 1900

  • I am already, thought I, half roasted, and my lardons will be the cause of my mischief; for these devils are very liquorous of lardons, according to the authority which you have of the philosopher Jamblicus, and Murmault, in the Apology of Bossutis, adulterated pro magistros nostros.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • The woman’s skirts billowed around her waist as her lover pressed down upon her in a liquorous embrace; the couple moaned and panted without the slightest consciousness that people might be observing them.

    The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

  • "A gentleman of Jack's profession," said the bearded man, whose liquorous voice proclaimed how he had put in his evening, "doesn't require to go to bed at all.

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

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