Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Lick

as I licked him. I flogged or beat him. (Welsh, llach, a slap, verb llachian; Anglo-Saxon, slic -an, to strike, or slick.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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