lickety

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Etymology

From earlier lickedy (slick, sleek, fast), equivalent to lick +‎ -ety.

Pronunciation

Adverb

lickety

  1. (US, informal, usually compounded with a noun) At full speed, fast.
    lickety-cut
    lickety-split
    • 1843, John S. Robb, Streaks of Squatter of Life, and Far-west Scenes, page 116:
      Away they started, “lickety-click,” and arrived at the winning-post within touching distance of each other.
    • 1886, Bret Harte, “Chiquita”, in Abraham Firth, editor, Voices for the Speechless, page 95:
      Lickity, lickity, switch, we came to the ford, and Chiquita / Buckled right down to her work
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:lickety.

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