lickpot
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English likpot; equivalent to lick + pot, presumably from the act of using a finger to clean a pot after eating.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: likpot