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lickery

lickery adjective: marked by licking, often involving copious amounts of saliva; sloppy; (by extension) salacious.

Adjective

lickery (comparative more lickery, superlative most lickery)

  1. Marked by licking, often involving copious amounts of saliva; sloppy; (by extension) salacious
    • “I want some waltzin',” Rose said. “And a long, lickery good-night kiss!”2010, Marcia Lynn McClure, The Touch of Sage, page 73
    • “You know, a big lickery kiss, like the one we seen Roy Gribbs lay to Ethel McCormick the other day when we was peekin' at them from the branches of that ol' cottonwood tree.”2011, Marcia Lynn McClure, The Light of the Lovers' Moon

Examples of lickery in a sentence

  • “Hounds've finished their lickery...” observed Zeth.2012, Khalid Patel, Hollow Shotguns:
  • And all I could think of was: Come on, Stevie, give me a great big lickery kiss.2013, Ray Banks, Dead Money, page 89:

Forms of lickery

comparativemore lickery
superlativemost lickery

Origin of lickery

From lick + -ery, modelled after slippery.

Questions about lickery

What does lickery mean?
Lickery means marked by licking, often involving copious amounts of saliva; sloppy; (by extension) salacious.
How do you use lickery in a sentence?
“Hounds've finished their lickery...” observed Zeth.
What part of speech is lickery?
Lickery is an adjective.

Words near lickery in the dictionary

  1. lickerous
  2. lickerousness
  3. lickers
  4. lickers-in
  5. lickerty
  6. lickery
  7. lickest
  8. licketh
  9. licketty
  10. lickety
  11. lickety-spit

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