Front | lickerish \LIK-uh-rish\ |
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Back | adjective 1. Lascivious; lecherous. 2. Greedy; desirous. [Middle English likerous, perhaps from Old French lecheor, lekier.] "[H]e the lickerish snake who literally hisses at his adversaries. Their cruel games will lead them to peek through keyholes, swipe bedroom keys, purloin letters, ruin lives." - Richard Corliss, Cinema: Lust Is a Thing with Feathers, Time, 16 Jan 1989. |
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