noun
- greed or excessive desire for food; gluttony
- lustfulness or lechery
Usage: archaic
Usage: archaic; offensive
Examples
- The medieval moralists warned against the sin of lickerishness at the dinner table.
- His lickerishness was evident in the way he devoured every dish placed before him.
- The old texts spoke of lickerishness as one of the deadly vices.
- She criticized the lickerishness displayed at the royal feast.
- The preacher condemned both greed and lickerishness in his sermon.