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UNLICKED

Definition: UNLICKED

UNLICKED

Adjective

1. Not licked; hence, not properly formed; ungainly. Cf. To lick into shape, under Lick, v.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "UNLICKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Specialty Definition: UNLICKED

Domain	Definition
Literature	Unlicked or ~~~Unlicked Cub. Unlicked Cub. A loutish, unmannerly youth. According to tradition, the bear cub is misshapen and imperfect till its dam has licked it into form. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms within Context: UNLICKED

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amorphism	Amorphism, informity; unlicked cub; rudis indigestaque moles; disorder; deformity.
Commonalty	Rustic, uncivilized; loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish; rude, unlicked.
	Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub, rough diamond.
Discourtesy	Bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub; frump, crosspatch; saucebox; crooked stick; grizzly.
Nonpreparation	Unhatched, unfledged, unnurtured, unlicked, untaught, uneducated, uncultivated,. untrained, untutored, undrilled, unexercised; deckle-edged; precocious, premature; undigested, indigested; unmellowed, unseasoned, unleavened.
Vulgarity	Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic,
	Rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub; clown; (commonalty); Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu; frump, dowdy; slattern.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: UNLICKED

Specialty definitions using "UNLICKED": UNLICKED CUB. (references)

Expression: UNLICKED

Expression using "UNLICKED": unlicked cub. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: UNLICKED

Language		Translations for "UNLICKED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		неоформен (unexecuted, unfashioned, unformed), необлизан, недодялан (coarse, countrified, gawky, heavy, inurbane, loutish, rough-hewn, rugged, rustic, unaccomplished, uncouth, unfinished, unrefined, wild and woolly, zizzi). (various references)

Czech		mladý zajíc (leveret, unlicked cub). (various references)

Farsi		لیسیده نشده , درست شکل بخودنگرفته . (various references)

Pig Latin		ickedunlay

Russian		зеленый юнец (callow youth, fledgeling, fledgling, unlicked cub). (various references)

Turkish		yontulmamış genç (cub, unlicked cub), terbiyesiz genç (cub, unlicked cub). (various references)

Vietnamese		không chải chuốt thô bỉ; vô lễ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: UNLICKED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-k-l-n-u"
	-1 letter: clinked, clunked, include, nickled, nuclide.
	-2 letters: duckie, induce, kilned, kindle, leucin, licked, linked, lucked, luckie, nicked, nickel, nickle, nuclei, unlike.
	-3 letters: cline, clink, clued, clunk, dunce, indue, inked, inkle, liked, liken, lined, lucid, ludic, nudie, nuked, uncle, unled.
	-4 letters: cedi, ceil, cine, clue, cued, cuke, deck, deil, deli, deni, dice, dick, diel, dike, dine.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-k-l-n-u"
	+3 letters: unchildlike.
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Alternative Orthography: UNLICKED

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 4E 4C 49 43 4B 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..- -. .-.. .. -.-. -.- . -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01001110 01001100 01001001 01000011 01001011 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#76 &#73 &#67 &#75 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 004C 0049 0043 004B 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5548464337453938

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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