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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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
On her teeth is a little lipstick residue, like unlicked blood.
From Time Magazine Archive
Genesmere could tell from its unlicked hide that the mother had gone to hunt water, and been away for some time.
From Red Men and White by Remington, Frederic
“Oh, but I thought it was only a snake!” said the youth, with that air of unmistakable self-satisfaction which at once indicates the unlicked cub.
From The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich by Drayson, A.W.
He abominated them all; it was an old feud, from the time he first went to sea, an unlicked cub with a great opinion of himself, in the engine-room.
From The End of the Tether by Conrad, Joseph
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