unlicked
Americanadjective
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not licked.
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Archaic.
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not brought into final or proper shape; unfinished.
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unpolished or crude.
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Etymology
Origin of unlicked
Example Sentences
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On her teeth is a little lipstick residue, like unlicked blood.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many a Corpus man is a veteran, for the war's end converted Oxford into a strange combination of unlicked cubs fresh from public schools and older men just back from the wars.
From Time Magazine Archive
The unlicked cub of a common constable seemed to eye me the more suspiciously for the flattering form of my address.
From Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
"Cut it, you unlicked cub, until you can begin to use that half-liter of golop you call a brain," Garlock said, harshly.
From The Galaxy Primes by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
The freshman breakfast is a conventional institution for gathering together the unlicked cubs, so that the local influences may take hold of them.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
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