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Lick vs Womb - What's the difference?

lick | womb |

As nouns the difference between lick and womb

is that lick is the act of licking; a stroke of the tongue while womb is in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.

As verbs the difference between lick and womb

is that lick is to stroke with the tongue while womb is to enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.

lick

English

(licking)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
  • The cat gave its fur a lick .
  • The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
  • Give me a lick of ice cream.
  • A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue.
  • a lick''' of paint; to put on colours with a '''lick of the brush
  • * Gray
  • a lick of court white wash
  • A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
  • The birds gathered at the clay lick .
  • A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
  • We used to play in the lick .
  • (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
  • Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
  • (colloquial) A bit.
  • You don't have a lick of sense.
    I didn't do a lick of work today.
  • (music) A short motif.
  • There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
  • speed. In this sense it is always qualified by good', or ' fair or a similar adjective.
  • The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.

    Synonyms

    * (bit) see also .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stroke with the tongue.
  • The cat licked its fur.
  • (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
  • My dad can lick your dad.
  • (colloquial) To overcome.
  • I think I can lick this.
  • (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
  • (colloquial) To do anything partially.
  • To lap
  • * 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
  • Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
  • To lap; to take in with the tongue.
  • A cat licks milk.
    (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * ass-licker * cow lick * good lick * lick one's chops * lick one's wounds * lick out * lickspittle * lick up * licked * lickety split * outlick

    womb

    English

    (uterus)

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (dialectal)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
  • (obsolete) The abdomen or stomach.
  • *:
  • *:And his hede, hym semed,was enamyled with asure, and his shuldyrs shone as the golde, and his wombe was lyke mayles of a merveylous hew.
  • (obsolete) The stomach of a person or creature.
  • *1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Jonah II:
  • *:And þe Lord made redi a gret fish þat he shulde swolewe Ionas; and Ionas was in wombe of þe fish þre da?es and þre ni?tis.
  • (figuratively) A place where something is made or formed.
  • *Dryden
  • *:The womb of earth the genial seed receives.
  • Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
  • *Robert Browning
  • *:The centre spike of gold / Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb .
  • Synonyms

    * (organ in mammals) uterus, matrix (poetic or literary''), belly (''poetic or literary )

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
  • (Shakespeare)