unlicked
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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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.’
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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.
- Not licked (by the tongue).
- Unbeaten, undefeated.
词源
From un- + licked.
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