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Lickerish

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.
  2. 2
    Lecherous; lustful, mawkish.

    "Birdsong, who followed the Colombian, stopped his hymn singing at this lickerish pantomime and watched his fellow muleteer in righteous disapproval. Condemnation was written in the Arkansan's very back and stride."

  3. 3
    Tempting the appetite; dainty.

    "I thought of all the lickerish pleasures of Felicity Place."

  4. 4
    Sweet, luscious. Northern-England
  5. 5
    During mating season.

    "Fighting like seals in a lickerish estuary"

Etymology

Probably an alteration of lickerous.

See also for "lickerish"

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