Unlicked
adj
adj ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Not licked. not-comparable
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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