Meanings
plural lickdishes · alternative lick-dish
- obsoleteA gourmand; a glutton.
Thou liar, lickdish, didst not say the nee'le would be gitten?
1567, Mr. S, Gammer Gurton's Needle, act 5, scene 21 more example
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.
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
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