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lick-wimbles

lick-wimbles is the plural of lick-wimble.

Meaning of lick-wimble

Noun

lick-wimble (plural lick-wimbles)

  1. (obsolete) A drunkard.
    • […]I bind me, my heires, Ale-squires, pot-companions, Lick-wimbles, Maltwormes, Vine-fretters, and other faithfull Drunkards firmely by these presents:[…]c. 1638, Richard Brathwait, “Laws of Drinking”, in Joseph Haslewood, editor, Barnabae Itinerarium: Or Barnabee's Journal, volume 1, published 1820, page 208

Questions about lick-wimbles

What is lick-wimbles the plural of?
Lick-wimbles is the plural of lick-wimble.

Words near lick-wimbles in the dictionary

  1. lick-trencher
  2. lick-trenchers
  3. lick-twat
  4. lick-twats
  5. lick-wimble
  6. lick-wimbles
  7. lickability
  8. lickable
  9. lickably
  10. lickdish
  11. lickdishes

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