liquorish

• lickerish

liquorish (comparative more liquorish, superlative most liquorish)

1. (obsolete) Lecherous.
   • c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene 3,

     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. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292, 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. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, Chapter 9,

     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.