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
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Gielgud with straw hat and cigar plays Sissal as a lickerish hybrid of Winston Churchill and Malcolm Muggeridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When first the Hawkers bawl'd 'ith' streets Wild's name, A lickerish longing to my Pallat came; A feast of Wit I look't for, but, alass!
From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by Parker, William Riley
‘Liquorish,’ by catachresis for lickerish = tempting to the appetite, causing one to lick one’s lips.
From Milton's Comus by Bell, William
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