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| 1. | lustful or lecherous. |
| 2. | (of writings, pictures, etc.) obscene; grossly indecent. |
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[From Latin salāx, salāc-, fond of leaping, lustful, from salīre, to leap; see sel- in Indo-European roots.] sa·la'cious·ly adv., sa·la'cious·ness, sa·lac'i·ty (sə-lās'ĭ-tē) n. |
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salacious
1661, from L. salax (gen. salacis) "lustful," probably originally "fond of leaping," as in a male animal leaping on a female in sexual advances, from salire "to leap" (see salient). Earliest form of the word in Eng. is salacity (1605).
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| salacious | |
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| 1. | characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: lubricious] |
| 2. | suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" [syn: lewd] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
Salacious
Sa*la"cious\, n. [L. salax, -acis, fond of leaping, lustful, fr. salire to leap. See Salient.] Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous. --Dryden. -- Sa*la"cious*ly, adv. -- Sa*la"cious*ness, n.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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