All 3 Uses of
succulent
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat.†
Chpt 12 *
- Those succulent bivalves may help us and the truffles of Perigord, tubers dislodged through mister omnivorous porker, were unsurpassed in cases of nervous debility or viragitis.†
Chpt 15
- …italianos though candidly he was none the less free to admit those icecreamers and friers in the fish way not to mention the chip potato variety and so forth over in little Italy there near the Coombe were sober thrifty hardworking fellows except perhaps a bit too given to pothunting the harmless necessary animal of the feline persuasion of others at night so as to have a good old succulent tuckin with garlic de rigueur off him or her next day on the quiet and, he added, on the cheap.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(succulent) a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs
or:
full of juice
or:
highly enjoyable