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 William Bell
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 Fairfax Harrison
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
