Dictionary

lickerish en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

Probably an alteration of lickerous.

Meanings

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 estuary a. 1917, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, “The Willow-tree Bough”:

Forms

Deriveds

lickerishly · lickerishness · unlickerish