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
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 William Holmes McGuffey
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 William Riley Parker
‘Liquorish,’ by catachresis for lickerish = tempting to the appetite, causing one to lick one’s lips.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
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