Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nice or fastidious in taste; dainty.
- Having a keen relish; eager to taste or enjoy; keenly desirous.
- Sensual; luxurious; wanton; lecherous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Lickerish; eager; lustful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic
lickerish ;lecherous ;eager ;lustful .
Etymologies
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From Middle English likerous, lykerous, likrus, from Anglo-Norman *likerous, *lekerous (“dainty”), apparently an unassilibated variant (compare lekeor, leckeur variants of lecheor, lichieor ("glutton, lecher")) of Old French *lecherous ("dainty, wanton"; > English lecherous); see lecherous.
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Examples
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From that verb came the English adjective "lickerous" in the 14th century.
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By the mid-17th century "lickerous" had fallen into disuse, leaving us with the variant
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Cassiodorus saith that the thought of him that is idle, thinketh on none other thing but on lickerous meats and viands for his belly.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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