/ · 1894 Brewer’s · L · Lick
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as I licked him. I flogged or beat him. (Welsh, llach, a slap, verb llachian; Anglo - Saxon, slic-an, to strike, or slick.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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