English

lick-wimble

From lick + wimble (sense 1).

A compound of lick + wimble

Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- ‘to lick’

Proto-Germanic *likkōną ‘to lick’

Proto-West Germanic *likkōn ‘to lick’

Old English liccian ‘to lick’

Middle English likken ‘to lick’

English lick

Middle English wymble ‘gimlet, wimble’

Today it means

noun A drunkard.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / lick-wimble