| 单词 | licker-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslicker-up a. One who or something which licks; spec. in sense 6a of the verb. Also licker-up; in silver-plating = lick-up n. (a) at lick v. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with mouth or tongue > [noun] > licking with tongue > one who or that which licks licker1440 1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 305/1 Lykkare, or he þat lykkythe, lecator. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Licker, lictor. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 999 Plated manufacture..The under face of the stamp~hammer has a plate of iron called the licker-up fitted into it. 1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxxxviii Being acquiescent lickers-up of ministerial dishonour. 1894 A. Morrison Martin Hewitt ii. 66 ‘There's no footprint here nor outside.’.. ‘That's a licker,’ he said. 1895 J. T. Clegg Wks. I. 375 Iv that's ony credit to Walsden it's a licker to me! 1898 Daily News 4 Apr. 8/3 The licker of red-hot irons was briskly following his profession. 1902 Eng. Dial. Dict. III. 587/1 Fatther, this sum is a licker; will yo' du it for mha? 1907 Daily Chron. 31 July 4/7 The licking his Majesty once suffered..[and] the half-crown the late Queen gave the licker for his pluck. 1908 A. S. M. Hutchinson Once aboard Lugger vi. viii. 456 Into a chair Bill collapsed... He gasped ‘George, this is a licker, a fair licker.’ < as lemmas |
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