lickerish

Example Sentences

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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

‘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

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