Lickerish

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lickerish \Lick"er*ish\, a. [Cf. {Lecherous}.]
     1. Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy;
        greedy. "The lickerish palate of the glutton." --Bp. Hall.
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     2. Tempting the appetite; dainty. "Lickerish baits, fit to


        insnare a brute." --Milton.
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     3. Lecherous; lustful. --Robert of Brunne.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Lick"er*ish*ly}, adv. --
        {Lick"er*ish*ness}, n.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "lickerish":
     animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, appetitive, bawdy, carnal,
     clitoromaniacal, concupiscent, desiderative, desireful, desiring,
     desirous, dirty, eager, ejaculatory, erotic, eroticomaniacal,
     erotomaniacal, fleshly, goatish, gynecomaniacal, hoping, hormic,
     horny, hot, hot-blooded, hysteromaniacal, itching, ithyphallic,
     lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinal, libidinous, lubricious,
     lustful, needing, nymphomaniacal, obscene, optative, orgasmic,
     orgastic, passionate, priapic, prurient, randy, salacious, satyric,
     sensual, sex-starved, sexual, sexy, steamy, tempted, unsatisfied,
     wanting, wishing