| 单词 | cat-lick |
| 释义 | > as lemmascat-lick cat-lick n. colloquial expression for a perfunctory manner of washing; also as verb. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > wash [verb (transitive)] > wash hastily cat-lick1859 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > [noun] > an act of washing > hasty cat-lick1859 a lick and a promise1860 c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 187 Þe feend seyde, ‘come hedyr, freend, þou art catlycked & qwyt of þi synnes in þi schryfte.’] 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. xi. 220 Th' men ne'er know whether the floor's cleaned or cat-licked. 1892 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 12 Mar. (E.D.D.) That's nobbut gien thisen a cat~lick asteead ov a reight wesh. 1898 Eng. Dial. Dict. at Cat sb.1 Yer may ev catlicked the flooer; yer hevn't weshed it. 1906 W. De Morgan Joseph Vance vii. 65 Anne..soaped me with a vigour far beyond any experience of washing I had had up to that date. My method had been Cat-licking, she said. 1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow ii. 61 Let's finish wiping your face—it'll pass wi' a cat-lick. a1953 D. Thomas Quite Early One Morning (1954) 30 They catlicked their hands and faces, but never forgot to run the water loud and long as though they washed like colliers. < as lemmas |
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