[Idiom] Lickerish archaic yes or no

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Dear teachers,

When I look up 'lickerish' in dictionaries both off- and on-line, it says 'archaic'.

But it is not clear to me, if this just applies to 'enticing to the appetite' or to 'lustful/horny' as well.
I hope not, as I need it as a rhyming word in a poem!

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It's archaic to me.

What's the line in the poem you're working on?
 

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It's a poem about sex, so I don't know how appropriate it is to quote from it, in a forum such as this...

But at the same time, that's about the long and the short of it: I would like to use the word in its 'lustful' sense, and I need something to rhyme with 'vanishes'.
 

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It's a poem about sex, so I don't know how appropriate it is to quote from it, in a forum such as this...

But at the same time, that's about the long and the short of it: I would like to use the word in its 'lustful' sense, and I need something to rhyme with 'vanishes'.
Er ... but lickerish doesn't rhyme with vanish.
To rhyme, everything after the last stressed beat must be pronounced the same.
For example, 'Lickerish' rhymes with 'Vicarish'.
'Vanish' rhymes with 'mannish' if that helps.
 

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Er ... but lickerish doesn't rhyme with vanish.
To rhyme, everything after the last stressed beat must be pronounced the same.
For example, 'Lickerish' rhymes with 'Vicarish'.
'Vanish' rhymes with 'mannish' if that helps.
The bold young curate from Inverish
Was rather more lickerish than vicarish...
Apologies for that.;-)
 

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It's half-rhyme:
vanishES
lickerISH

Sometimes you have to be creative...

And eh, if that vicar can be lickerisch, may I assume I can as well...?
 

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Just to add, I would have no idea what that word meant. If you want to be witty, don't write something that will send people to their dictionaries before they get it.
 

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It's half-rhyme:
vanishES
lickerISH

Sometimes you have to be creative...

And eh, if that vicar can be lickerisch, may I assume I can as well...?
There might be some assonance there, but if you're claiming a rhyme for an unstressed /əz/ and /ɪʃ/, you're going to find that not many people catch it.


 
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