lickerish

"lickerish" and pep'mints; it was as much as I could do to help asking him.

Aunt Madge's Story Sophie May 1869

I doubt Marquis Balastro would kidnap you and torture you or offer you lickerish Algarvian lasses to find out what Hadadezer had to say.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

Face a good oval, rather full in flesh, forehead square, without particular strength, a nose that was never unaccompanied by good taste and understanding, and mouth a little lickerish; -- the incarnation of the popular idea of a bank-president.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

_ Of a man who was married to a woman so lascivious and lickerish, that

Cent nouvelles nouvelles L��on Leb��que 1896

And yet Madam Choteaux was not a lickerish, or even immodest woman.

The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress No Author 1894

Paul is not a steer, if he is a negro, and Sally is a bouncing, fine looking wench -- with just enough negro in her to make her lickerish.

The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress No Author 1894

Of a man who was married to a woman so lascivious and lickerish, that I believe she must have been born in a stove or half a league from the summer sun, for no man, however well he might work, could satisfy her; and how her husband thought to punish her, and the answer she gave him.

Cent nouvelles nouvelles L��on Leb��que 1896

A tray full of hot seal entrails, a bowl of coagulated blood, and putrid fish are not very inviting or lickerish to ordinary mortals, yet they have their analogue in the dish of some farmers who eat a preparation of pig's bowels known as "chitterlings," and in the blood-puddings and Limburger cheese of the Germans.

The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants 1871

I cough sometimes in the winter-weather, and father gives me lickerish -- I mean -- I mean -- he used to.

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

The student should carefully distinguish the three words lickerish [tempting to the appetite, causing one to lick one's lips], liquorish (which is really meaningless) and liquorice (= licorice = Lat. glycyrrhiza), a plant with a sweet root.

Milton's Comus John Milton 1641