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Definition of Lickings
1. licking [n] - See also: licking
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lickings
Literary usage of Lickings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oliver Optic's Magazine by Oliver Optic (1875)
"I think they have, when I have to take the lickings for Nick and myself both.
... Perhaps I am ; I'm bad enough; but I'm not going to take Nick's lickings. ..."
2. The Writings of Mark Twain by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"We got a licking every time one of our snakes come in her way, and she allowed
these lickings warn't nothing to what she would do if we ever loaded up the ..."
3. The Dog and the Sportsman: Embracing the Uses, Breeding, Training, Diseases by John Stuart Skinner (1845)
"... an endurance of his caresses, and his lickings—lickings of the hand and of
the face, which places in continual danger the persons who can indulge in so ..."
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