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
Yet, amazed as I was, I would not have it supposed that I was altogether an unlicked cub.
From Simon Dale by Hope, Anthony
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 Corbin, John
Fancy a splendid woman like that spending life hammering a lot of unlicked cubs into shape.
From The Triumph of Hilary Blachland by Mitford, Bertram
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