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Traditional English :: lickerish
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licker.html - adj.
(also liquorish)
1 lecherous.
2 a fond of fine food. b greedy, longing. [ME lickerous f. OF lecheros: see LECHER] |
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English Idioms :: lickety-cut
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licker.html - {adv.}, {informal} At full speed; with a rush. * /As soon as school was out the boys ran lickety-split to the swimming pool./ |
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Traditional English :: lickerish
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licker.html - adj.
(also liquorish)
1 lecherous.
2 a fond of fine food. b greedy, longing. [ME lickerous f. OF lecheros: see LECHER] |
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Traditional English :: lickety-split
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licker.html - adv.
colloq. at full speed; headlong. [prob. f. LICK (cf. at full lick) + SPLIT] |
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English Idioms :: lick and a promise
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licker.html - {n. phr.}, {informal} A careless, hasty job; an unsatisfactory piece of work. * /You didn't wash your hands. You just gave them a lick and a promise./ * /The boys didn't cut the grass properly. All it got was a lick and a promise./ |
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English Idioms :: lick into shape
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licker.html - {v. phr.} To make perfect; drill; train. * /The sergeant licked the new volunteer army into shape in three months./ |
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