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lick-spigots

lick-spigots is the plural of lick-spigot.

Meaning of 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
  2. (obsolete) A woman who performs fellatio; a fellatrix.

Questions about lick-spigots

What is lick-spigots the plural of?
Lick-spigots is the plural of lick-spigot.

Words near lick-spigots in the dictionary

  1. lick-dish
  2. lick-dishes
  3. lick-platter
  4. lick-platters
  5. lick-spigot
  6. lick-spigots
  7. lick-spittle
  8. lick-spittles
  9. lick-trencher
  10. lick-trenchers
  11. lick-twat

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