different between rick vs lick

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k/

  Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English *rykke, from Old English hrycce (“rick, heap, pile”), cognate with Scots ruk (“rick”), Norwegian ruka (“rick, haystack”). Related also to Old English hr?ac (“rick, stack”), from Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“heap”). Further relations: Dutch rook, Norwegian rauk, Swedish rök, Icelandic hraukur.

Alternative forms

• ruck

Noun

rick (plural ricks)

1. Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.

   • There is a remnant still of last year's golden clusters of beehive ricks, rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows; […].
2. (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.

Derived terms

• rickburner

Translations

Verb

rick (third-person singular simple present ricks, present participle ricking, simple past and past participle ricked)

1. To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.

Etymology 2

From earlier wrick, from Middle English wricken, wrikken (“to move back and forth”), probably from Middle Dutch *verwricken or Middle Low German vorwricken. Cognate with West Frisian wrikke, wrikje, Dutch wrikken, Low German wricken, German wricken, Danish vrikke, Swedish vricka.

Verb

rick (third-person singular simple present ricks, present participle ricking, simple past and past participle ricked)

1. To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc.

Etymology 3

Abbreviated form from recruit.

Noun

rick (plural ricks)

1. (military, derogatory and demeaning) A brand new (naive) boot camp inductee.

   No turning back now rick, you are the property of the US government now.

Anagrams

• crik

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