unlicked
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unlicked (not comparable)
- Not licked.
- (dated, figuratively) Naive or ignorant, like an unlicked cub.
- 1833, [Charles Lamb], “Preface. By a Friend of the Late Elia.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page v:
- 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.