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lubricious en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /luˈbɹɪʃəs/ (General-American)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricous.

Meanings

1. Smooth and glassy; slippery.
2. (figuratively) Lewd, lascivious, obscene, wanton, salacious or lecherous.
   • Lubricious bank managers and building society chairmen who have never danced before throw off their jackets, confess to barren lives and worship Rick the giver of their sun and rain. 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
   • His imagination wanders between a wild sensuality,—so lubricious in its suggestions, now and then, as to occasion gossip to the effect that he had become a libertine,—and a sublimated philosophy based on Platonic conceptions of a prenatal existence, or upon Leibnitzian conceptions of a pre-established harmony. 1901, Calvin Thomas, The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller:

Forms

Deriveds

unlubricious · lubriciously · lubriciousness

Relateds

lubricate · lubricous · lubricant

Translations (2)

bg хлъзгав (smooth and glassy; slippery) · bg плъзгав (smooth and glassy; slippery)