licking

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lick=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

licking, n. 

•  A lapping with the tongue.  [1913 Webster]
•  A flogging or castigation.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

licking, n. colloq.
1 a thrashing.
2 a defeat.

THESAURUS

licking

Waterloo, appetite, beating, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, chewing, collapse, conquering, conquest, consumption, crash, cropping, deathblow, debacle, defeasance, defeat, deglutition, destruction, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, downfall, dressing-down, drubbing, eating, epulation, failure, fall, feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, grazing, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hiding, hunger, ingestion, lambasting, larruping, lathering, leathering, manducation, mastery, mastication, messing, munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, paddling, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, quietus, regalement, relishing, rout, ruin, rumination, savoring, shellacking, smash, subdual, subduing, subjugation, tanning, tasting, thrashing, trimming, trouncing, undoing, vanquishment, vegetarianism, walloping, whaling, whipping, wolfing