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

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 May, Sophie

At sunrise they are driven to water, to make them more lickerish on their return.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax