LUSCIOUS

Source: 566, 567

luscious. Luscious, a. very sweet, rich, pleasing, immodest

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Lus″cious (?), a. [[Prob. for lustious, fr. lusty, or perh. a corruption of luxurious. Cf. Lush, Lusty.]] 1. 1. Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.
And raisins keep their luscious, native taste. Dryden. 2. 2. Cloying; fulsome.
He had a tedious, luscious way of talking. Jeffrey. 3. 3. Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene. Steele.
— Lus″cious‐ly, adv. — Lus″cious‐ness, n.