unlicked en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + licked.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Newborn (of an animal), not yet licked into shape; (by extension, of a person) naïve, inexperienced, unrefined.
Rachel was an unlicked girl, no doubt prolific of confidences, the very first of which would be: ‘You see, I don't get on with my father.’
1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter I, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:
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(not-comparable) Crude, unpolished; not skilfully formed or finished.
[M]uch which I have heard objected to my late friend’s writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you—a sort of unlicked, incondite things—villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases.
1833, [Charles Lamb], “Preface. By a Friend of the Late Elia.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page v:
- (not-comparable) Not licked (by the tongue).
- (not-comparable) Unbeaten, undefeated.