Licking

Definition

lick / lÇk / v ၁။ (က) လွ်ာျဖင့္လ်က္သည္။ lick the back of a postage stamp ❍ He licked his fingers. ❍ The cat was licking its fur. ❍ He licked the spoon clean. (ခ) လ်က္သည္။ lick honey off a spoon ❍ The cat licked up the milk. ၂။ (လိႈင္းလံုး)႐ိုက္ခတ္သည္။ (မီးလွ်ံ) ဟပ္သည္။ Flames began to lick the furniture. ၃။ ( sl ) လြယ္ကူစြာ အႏိုင္ရရိွသည္။ We thought we had them licked. n ၁။ [C] တစ္စံုတစ္ခုကို လွ်ာျဖင့္လ်က္ျခင္း။ တစ္တို႔။ Can I have a lick of your ice-cream? ၂။ [sing] အနည္းငယ္။ တစ္တို႔။ The boat would look better with a lick of paint. ၃။ [sing] ( infml ) အဟုန္။ He started the race at a tremendous lick. ❏ lick sb’s arse [ IDM ] (⚠ sl ) ေဖာ္လံဖားသည္။ ❏ lick sb’s boots [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေဖာ္လံဖားသည္။ ❏ licking n [sing] ( infml ) ေဆာ္ပေလာ္တီးျခင္း။ give sb/get a licking. ❏ lick sb/sth into shape [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပံုသြင္းသည္။ The new recruits will be fine once they’ve been licked into shape. ❏ lick one’s wounds [ IDM ] အေရး႐ံႈးနိမ့္ၿပီးေနာက္ ျပန္လည္ အားယူသည္၊ အားေမြးသည္။ ခ်ံဳေအာင္း၍ ခ်ဳိေသြးေနသည္။ Leeds are still licking their wounds after their humiliating defeat by Rangers.

Examples

1. The children sat licking ice creams.
2. Their dog was still licking itself.
3. The kids were licking honey off their fingers.
4. [lick at] : The cat was licking at its injured paw.
5. [lick something clean] : They would sneak into the kitchen and lick the bowls clean.
6. [have someone/something licked] : We’ll soon have this thing licked.
7. They thought they had the opposition licked.