Dictionary entry

Luscious

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Lus″cious (?), a. [Prob. for lustious, fr. lusty, or perh. a corruption of luxurious. Cf. Lush, Lusty.]

1. Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.

And raisins keep their luscious, native taste. Dryden.

2. Cloying; fulsome.

He had a tedious, luscious way of talking. Jeffrey.

3. Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene. Steele.

— Lus″cious‐ly, adv. — Lus″cious‐ness, n.