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ˈlickerishness
[f. lickerish a. + -ness.]
Love of good fare; gen. keen appetite or desire.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Friandise, licorous thinges, licourishnesse. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 293 Meere lickerishnes causeth vs to eate such meats as we know are contrary to our health. 1656J. Harrington Oceana (1700) 152 Where there is a liquorishness in a popular Assembly to debate. 1658Osborn Jas. I, 134 Their Governours licorishnesse after the choyce morsells of the Church. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. v. §10 (1734) 168 The Snare and Temptation that Liquorishness and high Relish throws many into. 1827Hone Every-day Bk. II. 35 The boy..moved by lickerishness, began to eat. |