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Clicky vs Licky - What's the difference?

clicky | licky |

As adjectives the difference between clicky and licky

is that clicky is easily or frequently clicking or being clicked while licky is prone to licking.

clicky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Easily or frequently clicking or being clicked.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 15, David Pogue, Tech Shows, and Writers, Uninspired, New York Times citation
  • , passage=There’s a slide-out thumb keyboard, and it has a wonderful, rubberized clicky feel
  • Emitting a click sound.
  • * 2009 , Natalie Long, Click! You're red:
  • But you might not immediately think of Dorothy Gale's clicky , glittery red shoes, which though bright, have cast a more subtle shadow over the world of fashion.

    Derived terms

    * clickily * clickiness

    licky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Prone to licking.
  • * 1981 , Don Bannister, Long day at Shiloh
  • ...but she gives you the feeling all the time that she's bony that's it bony and if she does fancy it she sure as hell don't show it get a lickier kiss from Granny Coombs than I do offen her all that Methodis' stuff I guess
  • * 2003 , Michael Wordsmiff, James Baggit and the Storyteller's Ring - Page 13
  • *:He was a proper dog; a great, woolly, lolloping beast with huge paddy paws, a waggy tail and a very licky tongue.
  • * 2007 , Augusten Burroughs, Possible Side Effects : True Stories - Page 25
  • *:As soon as the dog was safely enclosed within the area of our legs, it became happy and licky . He ran to one then the other. Then he sat on the floor and watched us watching him.
  • See also

    * licky-licky