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
"An unlicked cub would first annoy me by his foolish teasing, then would cause me to be carried through the air to the land of the sacred Ganges."
From Tahara Among African Tribes by Sherman, Harold M.
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 Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
When you came, an unlicked cub, into the world of large affairs it was through us you made the alliances upon which your success is built.
From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville
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