lick up

English

Verb

lick up (third-person singular simple present licks up, present participle licking up, simple past and past participle licked up)

1. (transitive) To consume something by first licking it from a surface.
   • 1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Christmas Banquet:

     There was likewise a homeless dog, with his tail between his legs, licking up the crumbs and gnawing the fragments of the feast

Translations

consume by licking

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: լափեմ (lapʿem)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舔光 (tiǎnguāng), 添完 (tiǎnwán)

• Finnish: nuolla (fi)

See also

• lick clean