Word of the Day: LIP-LICK

ETYMOLOGY
from lip + lick

EXAMPLE
“… Thee gay boy kindlye playing, thee knowne lads phisnomye taking:
That when Queene Dido shal col the, and smacklye bebasse thee,
When quaffing wynebols, when bancquets deyntye be serued,
When she shal embrace thee, when
lyplicks sweetlye she fastneth;
That then thow be suer, too plant thy poysoned hoat looue.
…”

From: Thee first foure bookes of Virgil his Aeneis
Translated intoo English heroical verse by Richard Stanyhurst, 1582

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