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Etymology

Rebracketing of delicious.

Meanings

1. (morpheme) Used to form intensified adjectives indicating deliciousness, from nouns and adjectives.
   • If you prefer your burgers hot and spicy, then add the jalapeño seeds to this veggie-licious wrap. 2011, Nancy Kennedy, The Hollywood Wrap: 100 Quick and Easy Meals to Fuel Your Workout, page 83:
   • A catering business called Stranjahs advertises that they will provide ganjalicious goodies for private parties. 2001, Ed Rosenthal, The Big Book of Buds: Marijuana Varieties from the World's Great Seed Breeders, page 123:
   • It is packed with families dining under the live oaks at wooden picnic tables on food that is simply burgerlicious and better for dad's soul than nightly chicken 2009, Cam Rossie, Hilary Hylton, Insiders' Guide to Austin, page 100:
   • The best sellers, day to day, month to month, no matter the season, were apricot chicken tenders, sesame noodles, and pasta nests. Here are three pasta-licious nests, adapted for your home production kitchen. 2005, Rachael Ray, 365: No Repeats : a Year of Deliciously Different Dinners, page 241:
   • And unlike his Davis, California homey DJ Shadow, who smothers tracks with avant-garde displays of turntable mastery, Mike isn't afraid to let his B-boy bouillabaisse coalesce into real bootylicious grooves that are more about moving the crowd than wowing elitist nerds who crowd around the DJ booth. 1998 September, Matt Diehl, Vibe, volume 6, numbers 6-8, page 302:

Forms

Synonyms

-tastic · -tacular · -riffic