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lick-box

lick-box noun: a gourmand; a glutton.

Noun

lick-box (plural lick-boxes)

  1. (obsolete) A gourmand; a glutton.
    • Their Eſtate and Condition of living is but only changed after a very ſtrange manner[…] Achilles, a ſcald-pated Maker of Hay-bundles;¶ Agamemnon, a Lick-box.¶ Ulysses, a Hay-mower.1738 [1534], Ozell, John, transl., chapter XXX, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, volume 2, translation of Gargantua by Rabelais, François, page 181

Forms of lick-box

plurallick-boxes

Origin of lick-box

From lick + box. Possibly a calque of French liche-casse.

Questions about lick-box

What does lick-box mean?
Lick-box means a gourmand; a glutton.
What part of speech is lick-box?
Lick-box is a noun.
What is the plural of lick-box?
The plural of lick-box is lick-boxes.

Words near lick-box in the dictionary

  1. lick the birse
  2. lick the dust
  3. lick the pants off
  4. lick up
  5. lick-and-stick
  6. lick-box
  7. lick-boxes
  8. lick-dish
  9. lick-dishes
  10. lick-platter
  11. lick-platters

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