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Definition lick
Etymology
From Middle English likken, from Old English liccian, from Proto-Germanic *likk?n? (compare Saterland Frisian likje, Dutch likken, German lecken), from Proto-Indo-European *ley??- (compare Old Irish ligid, Latin ling? (“lick”), ligguri? (“to lap, lick up”), Lithuanian laižyti, Old Church Slavonic ?????? (lizati), Ancient Greek ????? (leíkh?), Old Armenian ????? (lizem), Persian ?????? (lisidan), Sanskrit ???? (lé?hi), ???? (ré?hi)).
Noun
lick (plural licks)
- The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
- The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
- A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
- A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
- A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
- (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
- (colloquial) A small amount; a whit.
- (informal) An attempt at something.
- (music) A short motif.
- (informal) A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
- (slang) An act of cunnilingus.
Verb
lick (third-person singular simple present licks, present participle licking, simple past and past participle licked)
- (transitive) To stroke with the tongue.
- (transitive) To lap; to take in with the tongue.
- (colloquial) To beat with repeated blows.
- (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
- (colloquial) To overcome.
- (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
- (colloquial) To do anything partially.
- (of flame, waves etc.) To lap.
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