lickerish
Example Sentences
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Juan in China, a continuation of his picaroon-hero's progress, is longer between laughs, thinned at times to the gin-&-water consistency of the late lightly lickerish Thorne Smith.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gielgud with straw hat and cigar plays Sissal as a lickerish hybrid of Winston Churchill and Malcolm Muggeridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was Tommy Gordon in particular, who always had his pockets full of "lickerish" and pep'mints; it was as much as I could do to help asking him.
From Aunt Madge's Story by May, Sophie
At sunrise they are driven to water, to make them more lickerish on their return.
From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax
Our cabin gentlemen had been long enough deprived of fresh meats to make them cast lickerish glances towards their hard-skinned friend, and there was a great smacking of lips the day before he was killed.
From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes
