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Lubric

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a smooth surface; slippery. obsolete

    "No eel was ever more lubric."

  2. 2
    Lascivious; wanton; lewd. obsolete

    "17th c, John Dryden, Ode to Mrs Anne Killigrew, 2003, John Dryden: The Major Works, page 312, O wretched we! why were we hurried down / This lubric and adulterate age, / (Nay, added fat pollutions of our own) / To increase the steaming ordures of the stage?"

Etymology

From Latin lūbricus.

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