unlicked

American  

[uhn-likt] / ʌnˈlɪkt /

adjective

1. not licked.

2. Archaic.

   1. not brought into final or proper shape; unfinished.

   2. unpolished or crude.

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Etymology

Origin of unlicked

First recorded in 1585–95; un- ¹ + lick + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Many a Corpus man is a veteran, for the war's end converted Oxford into a strange combination of unlicked cubs fresh from public schools and older men just back from the wars.

From Time Magazine Archive

On her teeth is a little lipstick residue, like unlicked blood.

From Time Magazine Archive

"An unlicked cub would first annoy me by his foolish teasing, then would cause me to be carried through the air to the land of the sacred Ganges."

From Tahara Among African Tribes by Sherman, Harold M.

Yesterday," Jack resumed, "it may have seemed as if we acted like a parcel of unlicked schoolboys.

From The Huntress by Footner, Hulbert

He abominated them all; it was an old feud, from the time he first went to sea, an unlicked cub with a great opinion of himself, in the engine-room.

From The End of the Tether by Conrad, Joseph