lick-box

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From lick +‎ box. Possibly a Calque of French liche-casse.

Noun[edit]

lick-box (plural lick-boxes)

  1. (obsolete) A gourmand; a glutton.
    • 1738 [1534], Ozell, John, transl., chapter XXX, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, volume 2, translation of Gargantua by Rabelais, François, page 181:
      Their Eſtate and Condition of living is but only changed after a very ſtrange manner […] Achilles, a ſcald-pated Maker of Hay-bundles;¶ Agamemnon, a Lick-box.¶ Ulysses, a Hay-mower.

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