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lickdishes

lickdishes is the plural 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

Questions about lickdishes

What is lickdishes the plural of?
Lickdishes is the plural of lickdish.

Words near lickdishes in the dictionary

  1. lick-wimbles
  2. lickability
  3. lickable
  4. lickably
  5. lickdish
  6. lickdishes
  7. licked
  8. licked clean
  9. licked into shape
  10. licked one's chops
  11. licked one's lips

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