LICKERISH

Definition: LICKERISH

LICKERISH

Adjective

1. Lecherous; lustful.

2. Tempting the appetite; dainty.

3. Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LICKERISH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Lickerish \Lick"er*ish\, adjective. [Compare to Lecherous.]. (references)

Desire

Edge of appe edge of hunger; torment of Tantalus; sweet tooth, lickerish tooth; itching palm; longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye.

Adjective: desirous; desiring; Verb: inclined; (willing); partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous. craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy; hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear.

Fastidiousness

Adjective: fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal, difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned; squeasy, queasy; hard to please, difficult to please; querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous; censorious; hypercritical; overcritical.

Greed

Adjective: greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping; rapacious; lickerish.

Impurity

Concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful; carnal, carnal-minded; lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious; Paphian; voluptuous; goatish, must, musty.

Savoriness

Adjective: savory, delicious, tasty, well-tasted, to one's taste, good, palatable, nice, dainty, delectable; toothful, toothsome; gustful, appetizing, lickerish, delicate, exquisite, rich, luscious, ambrosial, scrumptious, delightful.

Crosswords: LICKERISH

The Lickerish Quartet (1970)

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Albanian

lakmitar (covetous, greedy, hoggish, predatory), sqimatar në ushqim, epsharak (lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, unchaste). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نهم (avid, cormorant, gluttonous, gluttony, gourmand, insatiable, insatiate, open mouthed, pig, piggy, ravenous, straggling, voracious, voracity), ‏شهواني (amorous, carnal, erotic, instinctive, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lush, lustful, luxurious, passionate, randy, salacious, satyr, sensual, sensualist, sportive, sultry, voluptuary, voluptuous, wanton, warm), ‏شره (avid, avidity, cormorant, gluttonous, gourmand, greed, greedy, gross, hoggish, pig, piggish, predatory, solicitous, voracious, voracity), ‏شبق (libidinous, lust, lustful, rut, salacious, salaciousness, satyr, sultriness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развратен (abandoned, debauched, dissolute, fast, filthy, goatish, immoral, impure, lax, lecherous, lewd, perverted, profligate, rakish, reprobate, scarlet, sporty), който обича да пие, апетитен (appetizing, foxy, palatable, savoury, toothsome), лаком (avid, esurient, gourmand, grasping, greedy, gutsy, hoggish, openmouthed, piggish, ravenous, voracious), привлекателен (alluring, appealing, attractive, catching, catchy, congenial, cute, debonair, desirable, engaging, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, likable, likeable, likely, lovable, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sightly, taking, tempting, winsome, yummy), похотлив (carnal, concupiscent, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lustful, prurient, raunchy, rutish, salacious), пиянски (bacchanal, drinking, drunken, liquorish, sottish, vinous). (various references)

Czech

mlsný (fastidious, finicky, gourmand). (various references)

French

libidineux (libidinous), gourmand. (various references)

Greek 

φιλήδονοσ (sensual, sensualist, sensualistic, voluptuary, voluptuous), λιχούδησ (greedy), λαίμαργοσ (glutton, gluttonous, greedy, ravenous). (various references)

Hebrew 

תאות� י (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lustful, passionate, prurient, salacious, sensual, voluptuous). (various references)

Hungarian

buja (concupiscent, concupisible, erotic, exuberant, gross, immoral, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, luscious, lush, lustful, luxuriant, pornerastic, prurient, rampant, rich, salacious, wanton). (various references)

Indonesian

suka makan enak. (various references)

Pig Latin

ickerishlay.(various references)

Portuguese

voraz (cormorant, edacious, gluttonous, gourmand, greedy, rapacious, ravenous, voracious), sôfrego (esurient), guloso (gluttonous, gourmand, greedy, sweet tooth), gostoso (delicious, palatable, tasty, toothsome, yummy), glutão (edacious, glutton, gluttonous, gobbler), apetitoso (appetizing, plummy, savory, savoury, tasty, tempting, yummy), ávido (acquisitive, appropriative, athirst, avid, eager, edacious, greedy, jejune, rapacious, ravenous, wishful, wistful). (various references)

Romanian

libidinos (goatish, lecherous, lewd, libidinous), lasciv (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, liquorish, prurient, Randy, salacious, wanton), lacom (avid, covetous, craving, devouringly, edacious, esurient, glutton, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, hungry, insatiable, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wishful, wolfish), obscen (bawdy, dirty, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, indelicate, lewd, nasty, obscene, obscenely, ribald, scurrilous, smutty), destrãbãlat (debauched, debauchee, dissipated, dissolute, lewd, libertine, liquorish, loose, profligate, rake, reinless, reprobate, unruly), desfrânat (abandoned, bad, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, incontinent, lewd, lustful, man of pleasure, meretricious, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, reinless, reprobate, reveller, ribald, rioter, riotous, rip, ruttish, salacious, unchaste, unrestrained, unruly, wanton, whoremaster), apetisant (appetizing, Savory, savoury). (various references)

Russian 

любящий полакомиться, лакомый (luscious), похотливый (concupiscent, fulsome, goatish, lascivious, lewd, lubricous, lustful, prurient, rammish, randy, salacious). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukusan (appetizing, delicious, luscious, palatable, sapid, savory, savoury, tasteful, tasty, toothsome, yummy), primamljiv (alluring, attractive, inviting, tempting), pohlepan (avaricious, greedy, rapacious, sharp-set). (various references)

Spanish

lascivo (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, prurient, wanton), ávido (acquisitive, appetent, athirst, avid, covetous, eager, greedy, rapacious). (various references)

Turkish

obur (cormorant, edacious, esurient, glutton, gluttonous, gormandizer, gourmand, greedy, guzzler, hog, open mouthed, piggish, ravenous, voracious), ağzının tadını bilen. (various references)

Ukrainian

розпусний (bestial, debauched, lecherous, libertine, meretricious, profligate, rakish, riotous, salacious, wide), хтивий (brute, brutish, carnal, concupiscent, fulsome, goatish, lascivious, lewd), ласий (dainty). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thích ăn ngon hiếu sắc, ham (eager), dâm đãng tham. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "LICKERISH": lickerishly, lickerishness, lickerishnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"LICKERISH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Leckwirth, licerish, Licerius, lickorish, lickrish, lockerbies. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: clerkish, sicklier.

-2 letters: chilies, hickies, lickers, shicker, silkier, slicker.

-3 letters: chiels, chiles, chilis, chirks, chisel, clerks, hikers, hirsel, hirsle, ickers, ickier, kirsch, liches, lichis, licker, likers, relics, relish, riches, schrik, shriek, shrike, sicker, sickie, sickle, slicer.

-4 letters: ceils, chiel, chile, chili, chirk, cires, clerk, cries, hecks, heils, heirs, herls, hicks, hiker, hikes, hires, icier.

+2 letters: lickerishly, ostrichlike.

+4 letters: lickerishness.