lickdish

See also: lick-dish

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Etymology

lick + dish

Noun

lickdish (plural lickdishes)

  1. (obsolete) A gourmand; a glutton.
    • 1567, Mr. S, Gammer Gurton's Needle, act 5, scene 2:
      Thou liar, lickdish, didst not say the nee'le would be gitten?
    • 1847–50 [c. 1550s], Anderson, Rev. James, transl., “Author's Preface”, in Commentary on the Book of Psalms, volume 1, translation of original by Calvin, John:
      In addition to these, there are “the hypocritical mockers in feasts,” of whom David complains, (Ps 35:16;) and I mean by these not only lick-dish characters who seek a meal to fill their belly, but all those who by false reports seek to obtain the favor of the great.

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