Lubricious Loo Brish Uhs Adjective Lecherous Salacious Shifty Tricky Smooth

lubricious /loo-BRISH-uhs/

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.