[f. LICKERISH a. + -NESS.] Love of good fare; gen. keen appetite or desire.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Friandise, licorous thinges, licourishnesse.
1594. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., II. 293. Meere lickerishnes causeth vs to eate such meats as we know are contrary to our health.
1656. J. Harrington, Oceana (1700), 152. Where there is a liquorishness in a popular Assembly to debate.
1658. Osborn, Jas. I., 134. Their Governours licorishnesse after the choyce morsells of the Church.
1733. Cheyne, Eng. Malady, II. v. § 10 (1734), 168. The Snare and Temptation that Liquorishness and high Relish throws many into.
1827. Hone, Every-day Bk., II. 35. The boy … moved by lickerishness, began to eat.
