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Unlicked

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not licked. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Naive or ignorant, like an unlicked cub. dated, figuratively, not-comparable

    "I am now at liberty to confess, that much which I have heard objected to my late friend’s writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you—a sort of unlicked, incondite things—villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases."

Etymology

From un- + licked.

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