lickerish

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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

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

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

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

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

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