See Also: luscious(dictionary)
luscious(dictionary)
Luscious Lions(recipes)
Easy Luscious Fudge(recipes)
Luscious Cocoa Creme(recipes)
Luscious Lemon Bars(recipes)
Luscious Vegetarian Lasagna(recipes)
Luscious Pecan Bread Pudding(recipes)
Luscious Lime Angel Food Cake Rolls(recipes)

tiro (iou) and luscious (iou)


tiro (iou)



tiro noun. Also tyro. Pl. -o(e)s. LME.
[Latin tiro(n-) (in medieval Latin often spelt tyro) young soldier, recruit, beginner.]
A beginner, a learner, a novice.

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.