Citations:lickety

English citations of lickety, lickerty, licketty, lickity, lickoty, and licketie

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• 1818 July to December, “Mr. Hazlitt and his school”, in Analectic Magazine‎^[1], volume XII, Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, →OCLC, page 205:

  We often observe, that a person, in the ardor of conversation, when at a loss for words, will contrive to keep up his discourse, by uttering a set of arbitrary syllables, and giving them signification and force by means of his countenance and gestures. Such are those clumsy expressions, ‘lickity-split,’ ‘stripety-strain,’ ‘nimminee-pimminee,’ ‘namby-pamby,’ and a hundred others, which we might adduce.

• 1843, John S. Robb, Streaks of Squatter of Life, and Far-west Scenes‎^[2], page 116:

  Away they started, “lickety-click,” and arrived at the winning-post within touching distance of each other.

• 1845, William Scoresby, American Factories and their Female Operatives‎^[3], page 41:

  Jimmy snatched it as soon as it was ready, and ran out “full tilt,” in knightly phrase, or as he afterwards said, “lickity split.”

• 1852, Noggs, “Diary of a New England Physician”, in The Water-cure Journal‎^[4], page 58:

  Oh how shall I describe the tumultuousness of my felicity when I actually found myself on the way — “lickety split” — for I went Gilpin-like, although the case had been of ten year’s standing — being anxious to show my zeal, and to show the villagers that I, Dr. Pillicoddy, was going to see a live patient!

• 1865, Alfred Billings Street, Woods and Waters: Or Summer in the Saranacs‎^[5], page 123:

  'Twas licketty whang which should beat, I or the water, but I pulled and I strained ! I tell ye didn't I work ! Well, I did some.

• 1877, George Melville Baker, “Yankee dialect recitations”, in The Reading Club and Handy Speaker, page 151:

  I tried to catch on ; but he went off lickerty-switch, like a steam-engine, and I couldn't keep up.

• 1879, The Atlantic Monthly, page 658:

  Vulgarisms, cant, and slang. ¶ Such are “let her rip,” “let her went,” “lickety split,” “lickety cut,” “liquor up,” “long sass,” “go it with a looseness,” “lie around loose,” “like Sam Hill,” and “loco-foeo.” But such trivial and meaningless and ephemeral phrases as these are might much better be omitted from a Dictionary of Americanisms.

• 1883, Henry Martyn Kieffer, The Recollections of a Drummer-boy‎^[6], page 193:

  Sure enough, there he did go, from tree-top to tree-top, "lickerty-skoot," as Andy afterward expressed it, and we after him, quite losing our heads, and shouting like Indians.

• 1886, John Ross Robertson, Sketches in City Churches‎^[7], page 97:

  There is no rollicking, licketty, namby-pamby waltzing up and down the scale, but a harmonious and truly musical progression with soul in it.

• 1886, Bret Harte, “Chiquita”, in Abraham Firth, editor, Voices for the Speechless‎^[8], page 95:

  Lickity, lickity, switch, we came to the ford, and Chiquita / Buckled right down to her work, and afore I could yell to her rider, / Took water jest at the ford

• 1893, Mary Alicia Owen, Voodoo Tales: As Told Among the Negroes of the Southwest‎^[9], page 234:

  Ef er ooman dat am got ter de age ter know betteh am gwine licketty-switch down de road ter sorrer, she gwine, dat all! But de time come! de time come, sartin shore [Granny grew quite oracular]

• 1912, The Judge‎^[10], volume 63:

  You know how it sounds in th' barn when a thrashin' machine's goin' licketty split?

• 1935, Allen Walker Read, “Nantucketisms of 1848”, in American Speech, →DOI, page 40:

  The following list contains words and phrases that give Nantucket speech its distinctive character. […] LICKOTY LINER, LICKOTY SPLIT. Going very fast.

• 1953, James Maurice Scott, Portrait of an Ice Cap: With Human Figures‎^[11], page 26:

  The party left lickerty split about 4 p.m.

• 1980, Sam McBratney, Lagan Valley Details‎^[12], page 25:

  The master was coming. Ives watched it, fascinated. Lickity-slickity peck, it walked, proud and slow, lickity-slickity peck, lickity-slickity peck peck.

• 2014 October 27, hess [username], “out of bed and riding on cockersfork”, in Jackson Forum‎^[13], retrieved May 22, 2018:

  Didn't see aunt raggs car as we cam up boot hill, she must be a licketie splitting the roads'lol