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lick-dish

lick-dish is the alternative spelling of lickdish.

Meaning of lickdish

Noun

lickdish (plural lickdishes)

  1. (obsolete) A gourmand; a glutton.
    • Thou liar, lickdish, didst not say the nee'le would be gitten?1567, Mr. S, Gammer Gurton's Needle, act 5, scene 2

Forms of lick-dish

plurallick-dishes

Questions about lick-dish

What is lick-dish the alternative spelling of?
Lick-dish is the alternative spelling of lickdish.

Words near lick-dish in the dictionary

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

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