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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
lick .
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Examples
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Yu didnut fink tehy wrer teh wuns kitteh lickt, didz yu?
I always - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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And again, we saw the Beast set the tongue in among the boulders of the Gorge bottom; and it lickt forth a snake that did seem so thick as a man in the body; and the snake to thrash in the great white tongue, and to be immediately drawn inward, and gone utter.
The Night Land 2007
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When a person has lickt out the meet of a clam he throws the shell away.
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It is dear bought honey that is lickt off a thorn.
Collection of Scotch Proverbs Pappity Stampoy
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And again, we saw the Beast set the tongue in among the boulders of the Gorge bottom; and it lickt forth a snake that did seem so thick as a man in the body; and the snake to thrash in the great white tongue, and to be immediately drawn inward, and gone utter.
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Up one street an daan another they went, but Sammywell's blooid wor up an he worn't gooin to be lickt wi a bit ov a chicken.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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"Nah, aw willn't mak noa charge," th 'man answered, "yo've done weel, aw didn't think yo' could ha 'managed it, ther's three fowk tried at that hoister to-neet, an a dog beside, but it lickt 'em all. "
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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A serpent curled its loathsome neck, scale after scale, lengthening and still lengthening, out of the darkness, and stoopt down over the child, whose lifeless limbs hung from the old woman's arms: its black tongue lickt up the spirting red blood, and a green sparkling eye shot over into the eye, and brain, and heart of Emilius, who instantly dropt on the ground.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813
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Young man,” I mildly but gravely sed, “this crooil war is over, and you're lickt!
Artemus Ward 1865
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