different between lick vs blick

English

Etymology

From Middle English likken, from Old English liccian, from Proto-West Germanic *likk?n, from Proto-Germanic *likk?n? (compare Saterland Frisian likje, Dutch likken, German lecken), from Proto-Indo-European *ley??- (compare Old Irish ligid, Latin ling? (“lick”), ligguri? (“to lap, lick up”), Lithuanian laižyti, Old Church Slavonic ?????? (lizati), Ancient Greek ????? (leíkh?), Old Armenian ????? (lizem), Persian ??????? (lisidan), Sanskrit ???? (lé?hi), ???? (ré?hi)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

lick (plural licks)

1. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.

2. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.

3. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
4. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.

5. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.

6. (colloquial) A stroke or blow.

7. (colloquial) A small amount; a whit.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum

   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

     Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Why don't I call Jean-Michel at Il Portofino? We'll get a table outside? Ooh, I'm not getting a lick of service. Babe, can I hop on your landline?

8. (informal) An attempt at something.
9. (music) A short motif.

10. (informal) A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
11. (slang) An act of cunnilingus.

Translations

Verb

lick (third-person singular simple present licks, present participle licking, simple past and past participle licked)

1. (transitive) To stroke with the tongue.

2. (transitive) To lap; to take in with the tongue.

3. (colloquial) To beat with repeated blows.
4. (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.

5. (colloquial) To overcome.
6. (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
7. (colloquial) To do anything partially.
8. (of flame, waves etc.) To lap.
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI

     Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

Translations

Derived terms

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English liken, from Old English l?cian, from Proto-West Germanic *l?k?n.

Verb

lick

1. like

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From a merger two Middle English verbs, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to shine”):

• blikken, blikien, bliken (“to shine gleam”, weak verb), from Old English blician, from Proto-Germanic *blik?n? (“to shine, sparkle”). Cognate with Dutch blikken (“to twinkle, turn pale”), German blicken (“to glance, look”), Swedish blicka (“to glance”), Icelandic blíka (“to shine, gleam”).
• bl?ken (strong verb), from Old English bl?can (“to shine, glitter, gleam”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?kan? (“to gleam, shine”). Cognate with West Frisian blike (“to appear”), Dutch blijken (“to appear”).

Cf. blike.

Verb

blick (third-person singular simple present blicks, present participle blicking, simple past and past participle blicked)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To shine; gleam.

Etymology 2

From German Blick (“look, glance, twinkle, flash”), from Middle High German blic, from Old High German blik, blich, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *blikiz (“shine, appearance, look”). Cognate with Dutch blik, Danish blik, Icelandic blik (“gleam, sheen”), Old English blice (“sheen, denuded site”).

Noun

blick (plural blicks)

1. The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Verb

blick

1. singular imperative of blicken

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse blíkja, from Proto-Germanic *blik? (“look”), *bl?kan? (“to shine, gleam”).

Pronunciation

Noun

blick c

1. look (action of looking)
2. glance
3. gaze

Declension

Related terms

• inblick
• återblick
• blicka
• ögonblick