different between licked vs lick

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

licked

1. simple past tense and past participle of lick

Anagrams

• Dickel

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