Meaning of lickpot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The forefinger.
   archaic, childish
2. An untrustworthy sycophant.

Equivalents

Examples

“Coordinate term: thumbkin”

“Fife-men and pipers braw, Merry deils, tak them a', Gown, lace, and livery — lickpot and ladle ; Jockey shall wear⟳ the hood, Jenny the sark of God — For codpiece and petticoat, dishclout and daidle.”

“Everyone said, "Oh," and held up the finger we call⟳ "lickpot," and nodded his head.”

“No, only little Peter Playman; dear Thumbkin, Lickpot, and Longman were grabbing hardness under the gray cloth, shaping the flat oblong of hardness.”

“The use⟳ of the index finger to scoop the remaining juices from the cooking pot up to the lips gave it the finely appropriate name⟳ of 'the lickpot.'”

“. And the message that came was by the mouth of a kind of jackal or lickpot of John Dick's — who, for reasons of his own⟳, hated me, chiefly because I took no share⟳ in the foulness of him and his subservient crew.”

“Maybe ye'll not have⟳ another chance before the gallows gets ye ! Off with ye now, for a dirty fingered, lickpot sneak⟳, or I'll break⟳ the fiddle over the shoulders of ye!"”

“Piso is a peasant, Cyrus a cowherd, Brutus and Cassius landsurveyors, Demosthenes a vine-dresser, Fabius a threader of beads, Artaxerxes a ropemaker, Æneas a miller, Achilles a scurvy pate, Agamemnon a lickpot, Ulysses a haymower, Nestor a beggar, Ancus Martius a shiptrimmer. . . .”

“And, being no lickpot, would be left to watch⟳ the breakfast-porridge while the Sisters and Catechists went to Mass with the pupils of the school, on the benches of which young Boengabadu maintained isolated pre-eminence as a genuine Aboriginal converted from utterest heathenry, by the efforts of Pere St. Xavier and Pere Amable-Marie.”

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