Licked vs Nicked - What's the difference?

licked | nicked |

As verbs the difference between licked and nicked

is that licked is past tense of lick while nicked is past tense of nick.

licked

English

Verb

(head)

(lick)

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

nicked

English

Verb

(head)

(nick)

nick

English

(wikipedia nick)

Noun

(en noun)

A small cut in a surface.

# A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

in the nick of time

#*, II.20:

Truely he flies when he is even upon the nicke , and naturally hasteneth to escape it, as from a step whereon he cannot stay or containe himselfe, and feareth to sinke into it.

#* Howell

to cut it off in the very nick

# (printing, dated) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.

Meanings connoting something small.

# (cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.

# (real tennis) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.

# (genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.

(archaic) A nixie, or water-sprite.

* 1879 , Viktor Rydberg, The Magic of the Middle Ages (p.201)

*:imps, giants, trolls, forest-spirits, elves and hobgoblins in and on the earth; nicks , river-sprites in the water, fiends in the air, and salamanders in the fire.

a user's reserved nick on an IRC network

(UK, slang) In the expressions in bad nick'' and ''in good nick : condition.

The car I bought was cheap and in good nick .

* '>citation

(British, slang) A police station or prison.

He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick [police station] to be charged.

He's just been released from Shadwell nick [prison] after doing ten years for attempted murder.

Derived terms

* in the nick of time

Verb

(en verb)

To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.

I nicked myself while I was shaving.

# To make a cross cut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).

# To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.

#* Prior

And thence proceed to nicking sashes.

#* Shakespeare

The itch of his affection should not then / Have nicked his captainship.

To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

* Camden

Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations.

# To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

#* L'Estrange

The just season of doing things must be nicked , and all accidents improved.

# To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.

#* {{quote-book, year=1773

, author=Oliver Goldsmith , title=She Stoops to Conquer , text=My old luck: I never nicked seven that I did not throw ames ace three times following.}}

# (cricket) to hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection

(obsolete) To nickname; to style.

* Ford

For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me.

(slang) To steal.

Someone's nicked my bike!

(transitive, British, slang) To arrest.

The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he'd broken into.