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lickerish, liquorish, a.|ˈlɪkərɪʃ|
Forms: 5 liccoris, 6 licoryce, likerishe, -yshe, 6–7 licourish, 7 liccorish, li(c)korish, liquerish, liquourish, licquo(u)rish, 8 likerish, 6–9 lickerish, licorish, liquorish.
[Altered form of lickerous, with substitution of suffix -ish for -ous.]
†1. Pleasant to the palate; gen. sweet, tempting, attractive; = lickerous 1. Of a cook: Skilful in preparing dainties. Obs.
1579–80North Plutarch (1595) 50 The deuises of lickerish cookes. 1607Shakes. Timon iv. iii. 194 With Licourish draughts And Morsels Vnctious. 1615tr. De Monfart's Surv. E. Indies 20 There is another very licquorish fruit. 1634Milton Comus 700 And wouldst thou seek again to trap me here With lickerish baits fit to ensnare a brute? 1653A. Wilson Jas. I, 37 He [Bacon] was one of those that smoothed his way to a full ripeness by liquorish and pleasing passages. 1728Tickell Horn Bk. 18 Or if to Ginger Bread thou shalt descend, And Liquorish Learning to thy Babes extend.
2. Of persons, etc.: Fond of delicious fare; = lickerous 2. † Const. after, of.
a1500Chester Pl. ii. 199 And of that tree of Paradise she shall eate through my coyntice; For women are full liccoris [v.r. licorous]. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 66 Likeryshe of tongue, lighte of taile. 1561J. Awdelay Frat. Vacab. 13 This is a licoryce knaue that will swill his Maisters drink. a1632T. Taylor God's Judgem. vii. ii. (1642) 102 Yet was he lickerish also after any..rarity that was sent into his Table. 1664Evelyn Sylva 42 Cattel being excessively licorish of their leaves and tender buds. 1690Locke Govt. i. vi. §57 (1694) 55 They were so liquorish after Mans Flesh, that [etc.]. 1719London & Wise Compl. Gard. 283 Green Peas are ready to satisfie the longing Appetite of the likerish Palate. 1802G. Colman Br. Grins, Knight & Friar i. lx, A liquorish black rat Lured by the cook to sniff and smell her bacon. 1828Southey in Q. Rev. XXXVIII. 201 The holy man..had a licorish tooth. 1879W. E. Heitland Q. Curtius Introd. 29 He [Alexander] drank..rather by way of good-fellowship than from a liquorish appetite.
b. gen. and fig. Eagerly desirous, longing, greedy; = lickerous 2 b.
1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 384/1 The people..must not bee so lickerish to desire vnprofitable thinges. 1627J. Carter Expos. 3 This propertie every one is most liquorish of, taking after their great grand-mother Eve. a1639Wotton Life Dk. Buckhm. in Reliq. (1651) 99 Certain rare Manuscripts..were upon sale to the Jesuits at Antwerp, licourish Chapmen of such Ware. 1658Osborn Adv. Son (1673) 77 Be not therefore licorish after Fame. 1704Swift T. Tub Wks. 1760 I. 60 Their own liquorish affection to gold. 1834Bentham Deontol. in Westm. Rev. XXI. 9 He might have a lickerish leaning towards the trade of Cacus. 1873H. Rogers Orig. Bible (1875) 11 Jewish human nature..showed so intense a sympathy with the general tendency to idolatry, as to cast a liquorish eye on every wandering form of it that came near them.
3. Lecherous, lustful; = lickerous 3.
1600Heywood 1st Pt. Edw. IV, Wks. 1874 I. 51 Go to, Nell..ye may be caught, I tell ye: these be liquorish lads. 1700Dryden Wife of Bath 319 The liquorish hag rejects the pelf with scorn. 1749Fielding Tom Jones v. xii, Thou art a liquorish dog. 1828Lamb Wife's Trial, The lickerish culprit, almost dead with fear. 1881Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. Feb. 133 The smirk of a liquorish fribble.
4. Comb., as lickerish-lipped adj.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 154 Let euery young man be..not licorish lipped, nor dainty toothed.
Hence ˈlickerishly adv.
a1661Fuller Worthies i. (1662) 116 His expression licking the Chancery hath left Posterity to interpret it..liquorishly longing for that Place. |