lickerishnessn.
Love of good fare; gen. keen appetite or desire.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > [noun]
lickerousnessc1380
avaricec1386
avidityc1449
zealc1451
eagerness1486
greediness1553
anxiety1555
lickerishness1580
inhiation1608
exoptation1633
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > gastronomy > [noun]
lickerousnessc1380
lickerousheadc1450
lickerishness1580
friandise1603
epicurisma1620
gastrology1810
gastronomy1814
gastrophilism1814
gormandize1814
esuriency1819
gourmanderie1823
deipnosophism1824
gastrosophy1824
aristology1835
gourmandism1850
gourmetism1853
opsophagy1854
fine dining1940
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Friandise, licorous thinges, licourishnesse.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 293 Meere lickerishnes causeth vs to eate such meats as we know are contrary to our health.
1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 173 Where there is a lickerrishnesse in a popular Assembly to Debate.
1658 F. Osborne Trad. Mem. Raigne Iames 134 in Hist. Mem. Reigns Elizabeth & Iames Their Governours licorishnesse after the choyce morsells of the Church.
1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. v. 168 The Snare and Temptation that Liquorishness and high Relish throws many into.
1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 35 The boy..moved by liquorishness, began to eat.
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