lickedy

From licked +‎ -y. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “The adjective seems very rare, and the adverb may have a separate etymology.”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪkɪdi/

lickedy (comparative more lickedy, superlative most lickedy)

1. Fast, nimble, spry.
   • 1996, Meeka Walsh, The Garden of Earthly Intimacies, page 103:

     But he forgot to stay to the outside and he'd mingle, sniffing and snuffling with the warm cows and the lickedy calves and he'd grow sleepy and slow in there with them and heady with the smell of milk and pink skin and he'd rock slowly on his feet drunk with remembering or he'd fold his limbs and let the grass make his belly damp and […]

lickedy (comparative more lickedy, superlative most lickedy)

1. Alternative form of lickety.

• lickedy-split