lickerish

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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

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

Onc't they wuz tadpoles about as big as lickerish drops, an' after while legs growed on 'em.

From The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches by Riley, James Whitcomb

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