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 James Whitcomb Riley
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
There was Tommy Gordon in particular, who always had his pockets full of "lickerish" and pep'mints; it was as much as I could do to help asking him.
From Aunt Madge's Story by Sophie May
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