lickerishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Probably an alteration of lickerous.

発音

• 異形同音異義語: liquorish, liquorice

形容詞

lickerish (comparative more lickerish, superlative most lickerish)

1. Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.
2. Lecherous; lustful, mawkish.
   • 1922, T. S. Stribling, “The Web of the Sun”, in Adventure, Chapter 3:

     Birdsong, who followed the Colombian, stopped his hymn singing at this lickerish pantomime and watched his fellow muleteer in righteous disapproval. Condemnation was written in the Arkansan's very back and stride.

3. Tempting the appetite; dainty.
   • 1998, Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, Virago (2018), page 399:

     I thought of all the lickerish pleasures of Felicity Place.

4. (Northern England) Sweet, luscious.
5. During mating season.
   • a. 1917, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (lyrics and music), “The Willow-tree Bough”:

     Fighting like seals in a lickerish estuary

派生語

• lickerishly
• lickerishness