"lickerish" and pep'mints; it was as much as I could do to help asking him. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Madge's Story] Reference
And yet Madam Choteaux was not a lickerish, or even immodest woman. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
I cough sometimes in the winter-weather, and father gives me lickerish -- I mean -- I mean -- he used to. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants] Reference
Silenus, and nursing one of his fat legs with a lickerish smile, "isn't the Lord Almighty providin 'for His beloved heritage jist as fast as He anyways kin?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
A lickerish light rose in them. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Then I gazed with a lickerish hunger. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
A lickerish longing to my Pallat came. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)] Reference
And I've got a lickerish tail, Benham. From Wordnik.com. [The Research Magnificent] Reference
For the rest, a dainty, lickerish creed. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference
They're a lickerish lot here, 'tis said. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
The lickerish culprit, almost dead with fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays] Reference
With lickerish baits, fit to ensnare a brute?. From Wordnik.com. [Comus, a Mask] Reference
That lickerish voice continued behind my back. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Ten Worlds]
Here some curst old Popish crow Pops his long and lickerish beak in. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
"lickerish.". From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
It is not pronounced "lickerish.". From Wordnik.com. [Gene thinks you talk funny] Reference
When you think about it, saying "lickerish" is no more justifiable, and no less infantile, than saying "pizghetti" or "hostipal" or "drownded.". From Wordnik.com. [Gene thinks you talk funny] Reference
There is a class which has recently become conspicuous among men; they are idle, quarrelsome, vain, irritable, lickerish, silly, puffed up, arrogant, and, in Homeric phrase, vain cumberers of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference
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