licking
/ˈlɪkɪŋ/ nom B1En français : léchage
- The act by which something is licked.
- A severe beating.
- A great loss or defeat. · Our football team took a licking last night.
Pluriel lickings
Dans la bibliothèque
“All thanks for this good meal,” he said, licking his lips.
They found him stretched out on a warm ledge in the afternoon sun, admiring his beautiful new coat, for he had been in retirement for the last ten days changing his skin, and now he was very splendid--darting his big blunt-nosed head along the ground, and twisting the thirty feet of his body into fantastic knots and curves, and licking his lips as he thought of his dinner to come.
“Others also,” said Bagheera, licking his lips and looking at the monkey-dead on the terrace and round the tank.
So he sang a very mournful song that he made up on the spur of the minute, and just as he got to the most touching part, the grass quivered again, and Rikki-tikki, covered with dirt, dragged himself out of the hole leg by leg, licking his whiskers.
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