This flashcard defines "lubricious" as an adjective meaning lecherous, salacious, shifty, tricky, or smooth and slippery.
This flashcard defines "lubricious" as an adjective meaning lecherous, salacious, shifty, tricky, or smooth and slippery.
| Back | lubricious /loo-BRISH-uhs/ |
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| Front | adjective 1. Lecherous. 2. Salacious. 3. Shifty or tricky. 4. Smooth and slippery. [From Latin lubricus (slippery, smooth). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sleubh- (to slide or slip), which also gave us slip, slop, sloop, sleeve, and lubricate. Earliest documented use: 1584.] "The lubricious, often drooling Claudius himself, I reflect, would have been into full-body massage." - Clive Irving; Ye Olde Dolce Vita; Condé Nast's Traveler (New York); Apr 2011. "Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of 'Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney' was so lubricious and dripping in double entendres that her record label feared to release it." - Gerry Bowler; Santa Claus: A Biography; McClelland & Stewart; 2005. |
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