liquorish

English

Alternative forms

• lickerish

Adjective

liquorish (comparative more liquorish, superlative most liquorish)

1. (obsolete) Lecherous.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Dry up thy marrows, vines, and plough-torn leas;
     Whereof ungrateful man, with liquorish draughts
     And morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind,
     That from it all consideration slips!

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter V, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V:

     These the gravest men, after a full meal of serious meditation, often allow themselves by way of dessert: for which purpose, certain books and pictures find their way into the most private recesses of their study, and a certain liquorish part of natural philosophy is often the principal subject of their conversation.

   • 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 9, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     You must picture Mr. Thomas Marvel as a person of copious, flexible visage, a nose of cylindrical protrusion, a liquorish, ample, fluctuating mouth, and a beard of bristling eccentricity.