| 单词 | lick-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslick-up a. An act of licking. Hence quasi-concrete a small quantity, so much as may be had by licking; also lick-up. a lick of goodwill (Scottish), ‘a small portion of meal given for grinding corn, in addition to the fixed multure’ (Jamieson). Also (U.S. colloquial) a lick, somewhat, a bit (usually in neg. contexts). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > extract liquid [verb (transitive)] > by inanimate agents, waves, or flames lickc1000 lick-up1603 the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount speckc725 littleOE somethingc1200 lutewihtc1230 little whatc1384 ouncec1387 lap1393 smalla1400 modicumc1400 nekedc1400 spota1413 tinec1420 nieveful?a1425 handfulc1443 mouthful?c1450 smatchc1456 weec1480 quern1503 halfpennyworth1533 groatsworth1562 dram1566 shellful1578 trickle1580 snatch1592 sprinkling1594 fleck1598 snip1598 pittance1600 lick1603 fingerful1604 modicum1606 thimbleful1607 flash1614 dasha1616 pipa1616 pickle1629 drachm1635 cue1654 smack1693 starn1720 bit1753 kenning1787 minikin1787 tate1805 starnie1808 sprat1815 harl1821 skerrick1825 smallums1828 huckleberry1832 scrimp1840 thimble1841 smite1843 nattering1859 sensation1859 spurt1859 pauchlea1870 mention1891 sketch1894 sputterings1894 scrappet1901 titch1937 tad1940 skosh1959 smattering1973 the world > food and drink > food > amounts of food > [noun] > small quantity > bitten or licked bitc1000 bite1535 lick1603 nibble1968 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > licking slap1590 lick1603 the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with mouth or tongue > [noun] > licking with tongue > a lick lick1603 slake1721 the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > to a small extent or a little littlec1175 a litec1290 a little quantityc1330 little whata1387 wee1513 a whit1526 thought1581 a wee bita1661 a small (also little) matter1690 a trifle1859 a wheen1869 a taste1894 smitch1895 a lick1902 mite1939 a skosh1959 a tidge1959 a tad1969 1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. B4v I knockt you once for offering to haue a licke at her lips. 1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) lxxxix. 129 This Woman with one lick of my Antidote (which was mixed with hony)..received ease all over her body. 1688 J. Bunyan Good News for Vilest of Men 145 Many love Christ with nothing but the lick of the Tongue. 1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon ii. ii. 21 He cou'd..come galloping home at Midnight, to have a lick at the Honey-pot. 1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 219 He [sc. Jeffries] could not reprehend without scolding; and in such Billinsgate Language... He call'd it giving a Lick with the rough Side of his Tongue. 1814 Abstract Proof respecting Mill of Inveramsay 3 (Jam.) P. Wilson depones, that he did not measure or weigh the lick of goodwill. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Lick-up, a miserably small pittance of any thing. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 781 Ae wee bit spare rib o' flesh..to be sent roun' lick and lick about. 1841 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) VI. 62 The polar man..shall not have a lick of oil on Christmas Day. 1853 P. B. St. John Amy Moss 50 Everybody brought ‘sunthin’—some a lick of meal, some a punkin' [etc.]. 1902 W. N. Harben Abner Daniel 94 But all day yesterday an' to-day he hain't worked a lick. 1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill vii. 215 I was fool enough to argue with him a bit, trying to see if he didn't have a lick of sense. 1938 C. H. Matschat Suwannee River vii. 110 I knocked him loose an' hit him a lick. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 415 Seven bolls of sapo, a lick of lime, two spurts of fussfor. 1957 W. C. Handy Father of Blues v. 66 We had been complaining violently against an Irishman who couldn't cook a lick. 1971 Black Scholar Sept. 37/2 His grandfather was a preacher and he couldn't read a lick. 1973 Black World Jan. 63/2 His wife Fanny can't cook a lick. 1973 M. Gordon & G. Gordon Informant xlix. 188 If you've got a lick of sense, you'll mosey back into the woodwork. lick-up lick-up n. (a) something that licks up (see quot. 1844); (b) something ‘licked’ into shape (see quot. 1851); (c) used attributively to designate a type of paper-making machine (see quots.). ΚΠ 1844 Mechanics' Mag. 40 47 [Of Silver plating.] When cool the hammer is allowed to fall upon the lead, to which it firmly adheres by means of a plate roughed as a rasp, which is called the lick-up. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 34/1 A ‘lick-up’ is a boot or shoe re-lasted to take the wrinkles out..and then blacked up to hide blemishes. 1929 R. H. Clapperton & W. Henderson Mod. Paper-making xv. 212 The ‘lick-up’ machine may have either a vat or Fourdrinier wet end, but it does not possess a wet press... On this type of machine the underside of the web sticks to the cylinder and receives the polished surface. 1952 F. H. Norris Paper & Paper Making xv. 208 The ‘lick up’ type of machine..may have either a cylinder mould to pick up the stuff out of a vat and form the paper as on a board machine, or it may have the normal Fourdrinier wet end. On a ‘lick up’ machine, the wet felt also acts as an over~felt, and as there is no wet press, the web is transferred to the wet felt at the top couch roll. < as lemmas |
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