LUSCIOUS

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich. And raisins keep their luscious, native taste. Dryden.

2.
a.

Cloying; fulsome. He had a tedious, luscious way of talking. Jeffrey.

3.
a.

Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene. [R.] Steele. -- Lus"cious*ly, adv. -- Lus"cious*ness, n.


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