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