lickdish

See also: lick-dish

English edit

lick +‎ dish

lickdish (plural lickdishes)

(obsolete) A gourmand; a glutton.
- 1567, Mr. S, Gammer Gurton's Needle, act 5, scene 2:
  Thou liar, lickdish, didst not say the nee'le would be gitten?
- 1847–50 [c. 1550s], Anderson, Rev. James, transl., “Author's Preface”, in Commentary on the Book of Psalms‎^[1], volume 1, translation of original by Calvin, John:
  In addition to these, there are “the hypocritical mockers in feasts,” of whom David complains, (Ps 35:16;) and I mean by these not only lick-dish characters who seek a meal to fill their belly, but all those who by false reports seek to obtain the favor of the great.