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Definition: Licking |
LickingNoun1. An unsuccessful ending. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "licking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Licking is a city located in Texas County, Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 1,471.Geography
Licking is located at 37°29'48" North, 91°51'27" West (37.496775, -91.857629)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.5 km² (1.8 mi²). 4.5 km² (1.7 mi²) of it is land and 0.57% is water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 1,471 people, 647 households, and 390 families residing in the city. The population density is 326.4/km² (847.8/mi²). There are 744 housing units at an average density of 165.1/km² (428.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 97.35% White, 0.00% African American, 1.09% Native American, 0.07% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.34% from other races, and 1.16% from two or more races. 1.70% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 647 households out of which 26.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.8% are married couples living together, 13.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 39.7% are non-families. 37.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 23.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.19 and the average family size is 2.85. In the city the population is spread out with 22.7% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 22.4% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 26.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 41 years. For every 100 females there are 79.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 76.3 males. The median income for a household in the city is $17,576, and the median income for a family is $25,625. Males have a median income of $24,643 versus $17,153 for females. The per capita income for the city is $12,802. 25.5% of the population and 20.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 33.4% are under the age of 18 and 23.4% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Licking, Missouri."
Synonym: LickingSynonym: defeat (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: victory (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Licking |
| English words defined with "licking": hair ball, hairball ♦ Lambative, Linctus ♦ To lick into shape, To lick up, trichobezoar ♦ wash. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "licking": Audhumla ♦ Cow-lick ♦ rim job. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "licking": lambent. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Kid? While you were off licking stamos I saved the world from a Crelon invasion (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon) He's licking the glass and making obscene gestures with his hands (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes) How come all I can think about is putting that ice in my mouth and licking you all over (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | Girls I'm feeling em can't stop licking em (What's Your Flava?; performing artist: Craig David) The flames are now licking my body (Burning Love; performing artist: Elvis Presley) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Licking Hitler (1974) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | No-Till corn in Licking County, Ohio. Credit: USDA. |  | Democratic donkey licking face of unknown cavalier. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | East Montpelier, Vermont. Richard, age five, son of Charles Ormsbee, shown with his mother, is licking savings stamps, a self-selected war project. All his family contribute in special ways to the war effort. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Licking blocks of ice on hot day. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | W.C. Wicks, residence on Route 1, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Licking the dasher. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Tributary" by Kenn W. Kiser Commentary: "One of the many small tributary creeks emptying into the Licking River (photo taken in Licking County, Ohio, USA)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He inclined his head, closed his eyes, and, licking his lips profusely, began to speak with the voice of the hotelkeeper |
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Health | You may get rabies from a scratch if the animal, such as a cat, was licking its paw before it scratched you. (Remember that the rabies virus is found in the saliva of an animal). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Licking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.22% of the time. "Licking" is used about 238 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 96.22% | 229 | 19,864 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.78% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 238 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Licking, MO (city, FIPS 42464) |
Expressions using "licking": good licking ♦ Licking County. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "licking": boot-licking, finger-licking, lip-licking, pencil-licking, spittle-licking, stick-licking, tit-licking, water-licking, wound-licking. | |
Containing "licking": cat-licking-the-cream. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pussy licking | 1,228 | dog licking | 66 |
ass licking | 1,042 | cock licking | 57 |
licking | 904 | hospital licking memorial | 53 |
licking lesbian | 422 | vagina licking | 53 |
lesbian ass licking | 230 | woman licking woman | 51 |
dick licking | 216 | cum licking | 50 |
lesbian licking pussy | 214 | man licking pussy | 50 |
anal licking | 155 | free licking pussy | 48 |
foot licking | 152 | licking lover | 47 |
girl licking | 123 | toe licking | 47 |
auditor county licking | 121 | licking mo | 40 |
clit licking | 120 | licking teen | 38 |
ass hole licking | 112 | nipple licking | 37 |
licking county | 109 | pantie licking | 36 |
cunt licking | 107 | county court licking municipal | 36 |
licking county ohio | 99 | pussy licking pic | 35 |
licking ball | 96 | licking armpit | 35 |
tit licking | 82 | pussy licking picture | 34 |
girl licking girl | 73 | licking breast | 33 |
butt licking | 73 | free pussy licking pic | 30 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "licking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shuplaka, rrahje (affray, beating, clap, fighting, flap, hiding, lacing, leathering, mix in, Pat, percussion, pulse, quiver, scramble, stroke, throb, toweling), disfatë (bad luck, baffle, defeat, defection, discomfiture, loss, overturn, reverse, rout), dështim (abortion, anticlimax, bust, collapse, come down, crash, cropper, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flash in the pan, flop, frost, frustration, miscarriage, no go, reverse). (various references) | |
Arabic | مص (absorption, lick, pick, siphon, suck, suck out, sucking up, suckle, suction), هزيمة (beating, debacle, defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, overthrow, repulse, reverse, rout, thrashing, trimming, wall), لعق (lap, lap up, lick, wash), جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, lashing, leather, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping), إنطلاق (airiness, break, dash, discharge, flight, get away, kick, rush, starting, take off). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | облизване (lick), лижене (lick), бой (action, battle, doing, drubbing, fight, hiding, lashing, leathering, lump, punishment, rough and tumble, rough up, thrashing, towelling, trimming, turnup, tussle, walloping, warming, whaling), близане (lick), пердах (dressing down, drubbing, hammering, hiding, leathering, lump, paddywhack, punishment, strap-oil, thrashing, toko, towelling, walloping, whacking). (various references) | |
Chinese | 舔 (Lapped, Lapping, lick, licked). (various references) | |
Czech | výprask (beating, going-over, hiding, leathering, thrashing, threshing, whipping). (various references) | |
Danish | pica (allotriophagy, licking sickness, pica, twelve-point), mineralslikkesten (licking stone, mineral lick, salt lick, salt-lick), allotriofagi (allotriophagy, licking sickness, pica). (various references) | |
Dutch | likzucht (allotriophagy, licking sickness, pica), liksteen (licking stone, mineral lick, salt lick, salt-lick), pica (allotriophagy, licking sickness, pica), mineraalliksteen (licking stone, mineral lick, salt lick, salt-lick), allotriophagia (allotriophagy, licking sickness, pica), allotriofagie (allotriophagy, licking sickness, pica). (various references) | |
Finnish | outojen aineiden syömähimo (allotriophagy, licking sickness, pica), muun kuin normaalin ruoan syömähimo (allotriophagy, licking sickness, pica), höyhentää (give . . a good licking, lick, pluck). (various references) | |
French | lapement, sucement, démarrage, défaite, bossée. (various references) | |
German | leckend (lambent). (various references) | |
Greek | γαλιφιά (arse licking, flattery), λίθοι προς γλύψιμο (licking stone, mineral lick, salt lick, salt-lick), αλλοτριοφαγία (allotriophagy, licking sickness, pica). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מהירות (celerity, haste, lick, pelt, promptitude, quickness, rapidity, rush, speed, swiftness, velocity), לקיקה (lick, sipping), לקוק (lick), לחיכה (lapping), תבוסה (beating, checkmate, collapse, defeat, downfall, drubbing, overthrow, rout, setback, thrashing), הרבצה (bashing, lying down, spanking, sprinkling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vereség (beating, defeat, overthrow, thrashing, whipping), verés (beat, beating, dressing down, hiding, lick, pulsation, spanking, strafe, swipe, thrash, thrashing, throb, whipping), nyalás (apple souce, butter, lick, lip service, lip-labor, lip-labour, toadyism). (various references) | |
Italian | leccatura (artificialness), leccata (lap, lick). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ペルセウス座 (P.E.N., paint, pellet, pen, perestroika, Perseus). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ペロペロ . (various references) | |
Korean | 핥음. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickinglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lambida (lap, lick), sova (birching, drubbing, dusting, grueling, gruelling, hiding, lacing, paddywhack, thrashing, towelling, walloping, warming, whaling), derrota (balk, defeat, discomfiture, loss, overthrow, rout, thrashing, upset), anulação (abrogation, annulment, avoidance, cancel, cancellation, defeasance, defeat, deletion, dissolve, nullification, recall, repeal, rescission, revocation, undoing). (various references) | |
Romanian | lins (lank, lanky, liched, lick, sleek, smooth, smoothed), lingere (lick), insucces (abortion, bad job, failure, flop, Miss, plough, rebuff), chelfãnealã (dressing, dusting, pasting, spanking, thrashings, whipping), bãtaie (battue, beat, beating, blow, box, bursting, close, concussion, cudgeling, cuff, cuffing, drubbing, dusting, fight, fighting, flogging, fray, lacing, Pat, patter, pattering, percussion, pick, range, rattle, row, run, scramble, scrap, scuffle, set to, shot, slap, slapping, stroke, sweep, thrashing, throbbing, thud, thump, toll, tussle, warming), înfrângere (beating, defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, foil, overthrow, reverse). (various references) | |
Russian | порка (beating, corporal punishment, flagellation, flogging, hiding, horsing, lashing, leathering, oil of birch, the lash, thrashing, toco, towelling, unstitching, whopping). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lizanje (lick), porcija batina, oblizivanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | lengüetada (lap, lick), lametazo, tunda (belting, spanking), paliza (bashing, basting, beating, beating up, drubbing, flogging, hammering, hiding, leathering, pasting, plastering, punishment, slap, smacking, thrashing, walloping, whack), derrota (beating, defeat, reverse, rout). (various references) | |
Swedish | slickande. (various references) | |
Thai | การเลีย (lick), การตี (drub, hit). (various references) | |
Turkish | yenilgi (bankruptcy, beating, checkmate, defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, reverse, thrashing, trimming), yalayış, yalama (lick), dayak (bashing, basting, beating, birching, caning, chastisement, corporal punishment, dressing down, drubbing, dusting, flogging, fustigation, hiding, lacing, prop, rod, rubdown, sock, the works, thrashing, trimming, wallop, whacking, whaling, whipping). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | лупцювання (dressing down, hiding), лизання, поразка (balk, beating, defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, knockout, reverse, whipping, whopping). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự liếm, cái liếm sự đánh bại. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "licking": lickings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "licking": bootlicking, clicking, flicking, frolicking, outslicking, rollicking, slicking. (additional references) | |
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"Licking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blicking, lackings, lasking, lekking, licin, Licino, licken, likeing, lincki, Liscano, lockings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "licking" (pronounced li"king) |
| 5 | l i" k i ng | clicking, flicking. |
| 4 | -i" k i ng | kicking, picking, sticking, ticking, tricking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-i-k-l-n" | |
-1 letter: liking. | |
-2 letters: cling, clink, icing. | |
-3 letters: gink, kiln, king, lick, ling, link, nick. | |
-4 letters: cig, gin, ick, ilk, ink, kin, lin, nil. | |
-5 letters: in, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-i-k-l-n" | |
+1 letter: clicking, clinking, flicking, lickings, nickling, pickling, sickling, slicking, tickling. | |
+2 letters: crinkling, nickeling, prickling, sicklying, stickling, trickling. | |
+3 letters: clinkering, flickering, frolicking, nickelling, rollicking, strickling. | |
+4 letters: backfilling, backlisting, backsliding, bootlicking, bricklaying, cockbilling, cocktailing, gridlocking, linebacking, outslicking, politicking, sickeningly, singlestick, stockpiling. | |
+5 letters: backlighting, blackbirding, blacklisting, blackmailing, bricklayings, flickeringly, goldbricking, interlocking, linebackings, locksmithing, placekicking, singlesticks, walkingstick. | |
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