lick-box
English
Etymology
From lick + box. Possibly a Calque of French liche-casse.
Noun
lick-box (plural lick-boxes)
- (obsolete) A gourmand; a glutton.
- 1738 [1534], Ozell, John, transl., chapter XXX, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, volume 2, translation of Gargantua by Rabelais, François, page 181:
- Their Eſtate and Condition of living is but only changed after a very ſtrange manner […] Achilles, a ſcald-pated Maker of Hay-bundles;¶ Agamemnon, a Lick-box.¶ Ulysses, a Hay-mower.
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Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:glutton