Thursday, April 23, 2015

licorice, lickerish

Licorice or licorice ( also spelled liquorice ) is a plant, or an anise-flavored candy made from it--
Did you eat all of the licorice? You'll have a stomach ache!
This tastes like licorice; try it.

Lickerish or lickerish ( also spelled liquorish, rhymes with licorice ) is an old-fashioned word meaning craving or greedy for--
I'm feeling lickerish for a nice steak dinner.
The smell of cooking made him lickerish and homesick.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"The smell of licorice always makes me lickerish for a big pile of penny candy."

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