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

‘Liquorish,’ by catachresis for lickerish = tempting to the appetite, causing one to lick one’s lips.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

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

Right through the window—knocked over both them green lights—kicked a box o' lickerish all over the sidewalk—kin you spare one?

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: in Mizzoura by Thomas, Augustus