-licious

Used to form intensified adjectives indicating deliciousness, from nouns and adjectives.

Suffix

  1. Used to form intensified adjectives indicating deliciousness, from nouns and adjectives.
    • If you prefer your burgers hot and spicy, then add the jalapeño seeds to this veggie-licious wrap. - 2011, Nancy Kennedy, The Hollywood Wrap: 100 Quick and Easy Meals to Fuel Your Workout, page 83:
    • It is packed with families dining under the live oaks at wooden picnic tables on food that is simply burgerlicious and better for dad's soul than nightly chicken - 2009, Cam Rossie, Hilary Hylton, Insiders' Guide to...
    • The best sellers, day to day, month to month, no matter the season, were apricot chicken tenders, sesame noodles, and pasta nests. Here are three pasta-licious nests, adapted for your home production kitchen. - 2005,...

    Synonyms: -riffic -tacular -tastic

Origin

Rebracketing of delicious.

Forms

-alicious