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lickerish

lickerish adjective: eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.

Adjective

lickerish (comparative more lickerish, superlative most lickerish)

  1. Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.
  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.1922, T. S. Stribling, “The Web of the Sun”, in Adventure, Chapter 3
  3. Tempting the appetite; dainty.
    • I thought of all the lickerish pleasures of Felicity Place.1998, Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, Virago (2018), page 399
  4. (Northern England) Sweet, luscious.
  5. During mating season.
    • Fighting like seals in a lickerish estuarya. 1917, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, “The Willow-tree Bough”

Forms of lickerish

comparativemore lickerish
superlativemost lickerish

Origin of lickerish

Probably an alteration of lickerous.

Words formed from lickerish

Questions about lickerish

What does lickerish mean?
Lickerish means eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.
What part of speech is lickerish?
Lickerish is an adjective.

Words near lickerish in the dictionary

  1. licked up
  2. lickedy
  3. lickedy-split
  4. licker
  5. licker-in
  6. lickerish
  7. lickerishly
  8. lickerishness
  9. lickerous
  10. lickerousness
  11. lickers

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