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luscious(dictionary)
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luscious (iou)



luscious adjective & noun. LME.
[Perh. alt. of shortened form of DELICIOUS. Cf. also LUSH adjective.]
Richly sweet in taste or smell; colloq. delicious. LME.
A. G. Gardiner Pears that..melted rich and luscious in the mouth. Juliette Huxley Fellows comfortably digested their luscious meal.
Excessively sweet, cloying, sickly; (esp. of language or literary style) overrich in sound, imagery, or voluptuous suggestion. M16.
T. Birch A luscious Style stuffed with gawdy Metaphors and Fancy. Hazlitt A stream of luscious panegyrics. M. Donovan Without the addition of water..the resulting wine would be luscious and heavy.
Orig., appealing to a lascivious taste, salacious, voluptuous. Later, voluptuously attractive, sexually desirable. E17.
Pope Cantharides..Whose use old Bards describe in luscious rhymes. E. Pizzey A mole..highlighted her luscious mouth.
lusciously adverb M16.
lusciousness noun L16.