lick-spigot

Noun

lick-spigot (plural lick-spigots)

1. (obsolete) A bartender, a tapster.
   • [T]he accidens of Alcumy I will ſweare it is, be it but for that experiment of his ſmoaking alone, and which is a ſecret that all Tapſters will curſe mee for blabbing, in his ſkinne there is plaine witchcraft, for doe but rubbe a kanne or quarte pot round about the mouth wyth it, let the cunningeſt...1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 70
   • From thence, in a little time, dignified with the office and title of Mr. Churchwarden, he reckons himself as great as the Pope, and measures a foot more in the waist, upon his first entrance into this parochial authority, than he did in seven years before he was chosen for it.¶ His wife must now...1703, Edward Ward, The London Spy, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, published 1927, Of Victuallers, page 257
2. (obsolete) A woman who performs fellatio; a fellatrix.