unlicked
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Newborn (of an animal), not yet licked into shape; (by extension, of a person) naïve, inexperienced, unrefined.
adj
Crude, unpolished; not skilfully formed or finished.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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.’"
- "[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."
Etymology
From un- + licked.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un