lubricious
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricous.
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /luˈbɹɪʃəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
editlubricious (comparative more lubricious, superlative most lubricious)
- Smooth and glassy; slippery.
- (figurative) Lewd, lascivious, obscene, wanton, salacious or lecherous.
- 1901, Calvin Thomas, The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller[1]:
- His imagination wanders between a wild sensuality,—so lubricious in its suggestions, now and then, as to occasion gossip to the effect that he had become a libertine,—and a sublimated philosophy based on Platonic conceptions of a prenatal existence, or upon Leibnitzian conceptions of a pre-established harmony.
- 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
- Lubricious bank managers and building society chairmen who have never danced before throw off their jackets, confess to barren lives and worship Rick the giver of their sun and rain.