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单词 -alicious
释义

-aliciouscomb. form

Primary stress is attracted to the second syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly.
Forms: 1800s– -licious (esp. after a vowel), 1900s– -alicious.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English -elicious.
Etymology: Representing the pronunciation of -elicious (in delicious adj. and n.).
slang (originally U.S.).
Forming adjectives (sometimes isolated uses) with the sense ‘embodying the qualities denoted or implied by the first element to a delightful or attractive degree’.See also babelicious adj., bootylicious adj.In quot. 1878, as part of a pun on ‘so delicious’.
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1878 N.Y. Observer & Chron. 3 Jan. 8/4 There are beautiful warm soda springs in Colorado, and people who go bathing in them at once exclaim: ‘Oh! but this is soda-licious!’
1933 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 8 Nov. 14/8 Applelicious. One-fourth pound vanilla wafers, 3 large, firm apples, 1 cup sweet condensed milk, 1/2 cup water, [etc.].
1958 S. J. Perelman in New Yorker 11 Oct. 39/2 ‘And that triggered the inspiration for a slogan?’ ‘A humdinger’, said Crunch... ‘Appeteasing—Goodylicious.’
1989 Toronto Star (Nexis) 12 Sept. f3 Two countries, two kinds of law—the hunkalicious John Brennan as the Mountie, the equally-yummy Richard Comar as the U.S. marshall.
1994 Fast Forward 26 Oct. 29 (caption) Want to make your Halloween party extra spooklicious?
2001 Top of Pops Mag. Sept. 77/3 Destiny's too popalicious for ya, babe!
2002 Wired July 74/2 Her slinky, groovalicious sounds.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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