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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricous.
Pronunciation
Adjective
lubricious (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: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.
Derived terms
Translations
smooth and glassy; slippery