Crossword clues for luscious
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Luscious \Lus"cious\, a. [Prob. for lustious, fr. lusty, or perh. a corruption of luxurious. Cf. Lush, Lusty.]
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Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.
And raisins keep their luscious, native taste.
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Cloying; fulsome.
He had a tedious, luscious way of talking.
--Jeffrey. Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene. [R.]
--Steele. -- Lus"cious*ly, adv. -- Lus"cious*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., perhaps a variant (with form perhaps influenced by Old French luxure, lusure) of Middle English licius "delicious" (c.1400), which is perhaps a shortening of delicious, but OED is against this. Related: Lusciously; lusciousness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 sweet and pleasant; delicious 2 sexually appealing; seductive 3 obscene
WordNet
adj. having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman" [syn: juicy, red-hot, voluptuous]
extremely pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: delectable, delicious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy]
Wikipedia
Luscious may refer to:
- Luscious Jackson, a rock band formed in 1991
- Luscious Pink, a brand of perfume
- Luscious, alternate name used by Ali Forney
Usage examples of "luscious".
Who would not give back the luscious pear and peach to their native acritude, rather than subject the highest forms of vegetable life to such irreverence?
The ropes at her ankles as well as those dragging up her arms confined her to an extremely limited range of movement, just enough to excite me with her convulsive gyrations and her buckings and lungings which made her thighs and bubbies jounce and jiggle and express the luscious resilience of her naked flesh.
Mills bomb turns out to be luscious pepsin-flavored nougat, chock-full of tangy candied cubeb berries, and a chewy camphor-gum center.
Above all things, She longed for the taste of flame in each of Her mouths, the brilliant jets lancing straight into the crowd, the sound of screaming and the luscious flagrance of roasting flesh.
Jet Mykles is a sensual feast of decadent delight and luscious intent.
Dez could agree, Nerine came in accompanied by a steward dressed in crisp white, and bearing a large tray with a luscious fruit salad for Blaise and a hearty roast beef sandwich for him.
Again he draws out, and again enters, till the friction caused by the luscious tightness of the rich flesh which clasps tightly his foaming pego causes such delicious sensations that he is no longer master of himself.
Along with Figg and Sade, other celebrities flocked to eat at the Greenhouse, some of them hoping to score an invitation to the party -- stars like Rudy Roloway and Luscious Pixie, superstar cinema actors freshly married for the third time.
She liked the rituals of this O Bon Odori, a Japanese dance festival that let her dress up in a blue and white cotton ukata, feast on juicy BBQ squid, gingery pancakes and luscious mango shave ice, fried noodles, and sweetened bean confections.
He released his hold on the now-aching breast and once more covered her full luscious lips with his own, as he rode atop her writhing body.
He threw his burnous over his shoulder and moved away smiling, and murmuring in a luscious voice the first words of Ganem, the Slave of Love.
A blackbird, whose cheery note suggested melodious memories drawn from the heart of the quiet country, was whistling a lively improvisation on the bough of a chestnut-tree, whereof the brown shining buds were just bursting into leaf,--and Alwyn, whose every sense was pleasantly attuned to the small, as well as great, harmonies of nature, paused for a moment to listen to the luscious piping of the feathered minstrel, that in its own wild woodland way had as excellent an idea of musical variation as any Mozart or Chopin.
Gwenny Goblin was quite pretty, and Mela Merwoman was physically luscious, for all that he was to young to notice, but Nada was beautiful.
Our refectory will be found to contain every species of fruit, from the cooling nectarine and luscious peach to the puny pippin and the noxious nut.
It was pouting and soft and luscious and I felt her whole body relax under me.