Synonyms for lick

Most common

taste · whiff · poke · salt lick

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Verb

Antonyms

oodles

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Definitions

1. n. 1

   A small amount; a whit.

   You don't have a lick of sense.

2. n. 2

   The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.

   The cat gave its fur a lick.

3. v. 1

   To stroke with the tongue.

4. v. 2

   To lap; to take in with the tongue.

   Jim closed his eyes and licked his vanilla ice cream cone.

Related words

Word family

lick-dish licked lickety-split lickpenny lickpot lick-platter lick-trencher

Phrases

lick someone's ass lick someone's balls lick into shape lick someone's boots lick my balls lick of work salt lick

Forms

Plural

licks → touches, tastes, blows, beats…

Past participle

licked
e.g. licked → worked, solved, lapped, thrashed…

Example sentences

• taste My wife's taste in clothes is different from mine.
• whiff He had a whiff at my fart and fanned it back to me.
• poke I don't poke my nose into other people's business.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

bat¹, lap¹, dab¹

4 letters

work¹, beat¹, blow¹, hint¹, dash¹, poke¹, slug¹, pelt¹, biff¹, drub¹

5 letters

touch¹, taste¹, cream¹, solve¹, punch¹, trace¹, spark¹, spice¹, smack¹, whiff¹, clout¹, thump¹, speck¹, tinge¹

6 letters

tongue¹, stroke¹, thrash¹, trifle², thwack

7 letters

thought¹, clobber², trounce¹

9 letters

scintilla³

10 letters

sprinkling², smattering³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (trifle² = 2 syllables).