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lick-boxes

lick-boxes is the plural of lick-box.

Meaning of lick-box

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

Questions about lick-boxes

What is lick-boxes the plural of?
Lick-boxes is the plural of lick-box.

Words near lick-boxes in the dictionary

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

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