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Licky vs Lickt - What's the difference?

licky | lickt |

As an adjective licky

is prone to licking.

As a verb lickt is

(obsolete) (lick).

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

    lickt

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (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