Definition of "liquorish"
liquorish
adjective
comparative more liquorish, superlative most liquorish
(obsolete) Lecherous.
Quotations
Dry up thy marrows, vines, and plough-torn leas;Whereof ungrateful man, with liquorish draughtsAnd morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind,That from it all consideration slips!
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, [Act IV, scene iii]
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.
1749, Henry Fielding, chapter V, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], book V
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.
1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 9, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers