"lickerish" meaning in English

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      "word": "lickerishly"
    },
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      "word": "lickerishness"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Compare lickerous.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more lickerish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most lickerish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "lickerish (comparative more lickerish, superlative most lickerish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy."
      ],
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    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, T. S. Stribling, “The Web of the Sun”, in Adventure, Chapter 3",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lecherous; lustful, mawkish."
      ],
      "id": "en-lickerish-en-adj-DCXByZsv",
      "links": [
        [
          "mawkish",
          "mawkish"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, Virago (2018), page 399",
          "text": "I thought of all the lickerish pleasures of Felicity Place.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tempting the appetite; dainty."
      ],
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    },
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sweet, luscious."
      ],
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        "(Northern England) Sweet, luscious."
      ],
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      ]
    },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1917, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (lyrics and music), “The Willow-tree Bough”",
          "text": "Fighting like seals in a lickerish estuary",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "During mating season."
      ],
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "homophone": "liquorish"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "liquorice"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lickerish"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms with homophones"
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  "derived": [
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      "word": "lickerishly"
    },
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      "word": "lickerishness"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Compare lickerous.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more lickerish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most lickerish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy."
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, T. S. Stribling, “The Web of the Sun”, in Adventure, Chapter 3",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lecherous; lustful, mawkish."
      ],
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        [
          "mawkish",
          "mawkish"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
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        {
          "ref": "1998, Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, Virago (2018), page 399",
          "text": "I thought of all the lickerish pleasures of Felicity Place.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tempting the appetite; dainty."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Northern England English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sweet, luscious."
      ],
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          "Sweet",
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        ],
        [
          "luscious",
          "luscious"
        ]
      ],
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        "(Northern England) Sweet, luscious."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "a. 1917, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (lyrics and music), “The Willow-tree Bough”",
          "text": "Fighting like seals in a lickerish estuary",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "During mating season."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "homophone": "liquorish"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "liquorice"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lickerish"
}