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
Here and now was the man who served so to perturb her once—and she could look on him, with her more mature eyes, as an attractive, unlicked young cub.
From The Readjustment by Irwin, Will
Seven thousand a year unencumbered was hardly to be sneezed at; still, she must not throw herself away on any such unlicked cub.
From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Mitford, Bertram
He looked a terribly unlicked cub, and Winn found himself watching anxiously to see if Claire ate enough and the right things.
From The Dark Tower by Soper, J. H. Gardner
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