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Lickerish definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LICK'ERISH, a. [Gr. sweet. The sense of watery, smooth, sweet, are allied; likeness is often connected with smoothness in radical sense, and sleek is probably from the root of lick, like.]
1. Nice in the choice of food; dainty; as a lickerish palate.
2. Eager; greedy to swallow; eager to taste or enjoy; having a keen relish.
3. Dainty; tempting the appetite; as lickerish baits.

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: alteration of lickerous, from Middle English likerous, probably modification of Anglo-French *lekerous, lecherus lecherous, from lechur lecher Date: 14th century 1. greedy, desirous 2. obsolete tempting to the appetite 3. lecherous • lickerishly adverb • lickerishness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (also liquorish) 1 lecherous. 2 a fond of fine food. b greedy, longing. Etymology: ME lickerous f. OF lecheros: see LECHER

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lickerish Lick"er*ish, a. [Cf. Lecherous.] 1. Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy. ``The lickerish palate of the glutton.'' --Bp. Hall. 2. Tempting the appetite; dainty. ``Lickerish baits, fit to insnare a brute.'' --Milton. 3. Lecherous; lustful. --Robert of Brunne. -- Lick"er*ish*ly, adv. -- Lick"er*ish*ness, n.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Hankering (to lick or taste), craving, longing. 2. Lecherous. See libidinous. 3. Dainty, nice, fastidious. 4. Dainty, tempting, appetizing.

Moby Thesaurus

animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, appetitive, bawdy, carnal, clitoromaniacal, concupiscent, desiderative, desireful, desiring, desirous, dirty, eager, ejaculatory, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fleshly, goatish, gynecomaniacal, hoping, hormic, horny, hot, hot-blooded, hysteromaniacal, itching, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinal, libidinous, lubricious, lustful, needing, nymphomaniacal, obscene, optative, orgasmic, orgastic, passionate, priapic, prurient, randy, salacious, satyric, sensual, sex-starved, sexual, sexy, steamy, tempted, unsatisfied, wanting, wishing