| 单词 | give his licks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgive (one) his licks a. A smart blow. (Cf. to lick on the whip, cited from c1460.) Also plural (Scottish and northern), a beating, in to get one's licks, give (one) his licks. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > a sharp or smart blow dab1300 rapc1330 thresta1400 bruntc1400 knap14.. yedderc1440 gird1487 yert1509 fillip1543 yark1555 flewet1570 stingera1577 flirt1577 wherret1577 riprapc1580 spang1595 nick1651 lick1680 flip1692 yowf1711 clink1722 wherrya1726 click1773 whither1791 swata1800 yank1818 snock1825 clip1830 snop1849 clinkera1863 siserary1893 blip1894 1680 tr. J.-B. Tavernier Coll. Several Relations & Treat. i. ii. vi. 77 [He] gave the Fellow half a dozen good Licks with his Cane. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. ii To lend his loving wife a loundering lick. 1735 J. Swift Full & True Acct. Execution W. Wood in Wks. IV. 244 3d. Cook. I'll give him a Lick in the Chops. 1786 R. Burns Poems 216 An' monie a fallow gat his licks, Wi' hearty crunt. 1810 Sporting Mag. 36 79 Unless either of them gave him a lick on the head. 1820 W. Scott Abbot I. vii. 159 The dread of a lick should not hold me back. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxvi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 749 Every callant in the class could gie him his licks. 1837 S. Lover Rory O'More (1849) 13 We're used to a lick of a stick every day. 1887 Schoolmaster 15 Jan. 104/1 The boy..deponed that the master gave him twa licks in the lug. 1894 S. R. Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet 103 The yin that got his licks fell down and bit the dust. < as lemmas |
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