What does that quote mean "I`ll lick you good"
It's from the book of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".
Please tell me this is a DIALECT.
2007-01-31 10:27:50 · 25 answers · asked by x0x kEwTiiE x0x 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
I will beat you up.
southern dialect
2007-01-31 10:31:48 · answer #1 · answered by m m 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Suspect this is for such as American High School? Twain should be read more often at university.
The phrase "I'll lick you good" is well evolutionary from the late 17th into the 19th century in literature and usage.
It is not dialect. It is based on the Roman poet Virgil's 19 BC
THE AENEID. Both in the text and as well by something that Virgil wrote about how a bear will lick her cubs into form "into shape",:
The cave of Mars was dress'd with mossy greens:
There, by the wolf, were laid the martial twins.
Intrepid on her swelling dugs they hung;
The foster dam loll'd out her fawning tongue:
They suck'd secure, while, bending back her head,
She lick'd their tender limbs, and form'd them as they fed.
Not far from thence new Rome appears,
the above is not about bear cubs but: A descendant of Aeneas, son of Mars, reared by a she-wolf, Romulus (with his
brother, Remus) founded Rome in 753 BC and became its first king
So the common saying was "Lick into shape" as to "shape up" get it correct, manners, be proper, well behaved, etc.
Aeneid - Page 210
by Virgil, Stanley Lombardo - 2005 - 355 pages
Her sculpted head turned back To nuzzle each in turn and lick them into shape.
So, now you have more than you wanted. So to "lick one" is to get them into shape, even if it takes a thrashing or such.
2007-02-01 01:42:00 · answer #2 · answered by cruisingyeti 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not dialect.back in the 1800's when tom sawyer was
written,'licking' somebody meant you were going to have
it out with them.in other words fighting.2 men having a go at it.one was going to try to out box or ouslug the other,or
perhaps admonish the other physically.no insurance &
not many doctors back then either.nowadaysits a lot of
jawing & hot air.also,illegal.if you do anything anywhere
besides breathe,you'r in trouble.
2007-01-31 10:44:17 · answer #3 · answered by pat b 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not "tan de hide off'n me"? litereally, to tan a hide is preparing an animal skin. But I think is was used than as a spnking with a paddle until thebutt is red sore. sounds like a beating or punishment. " 'Deed she would' = "Indeed she would"
2016-03-28 22:51:48 · answer #4 · answered by Laura 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is dialect. It means "I'll give you a good licking", or, if said by a parent, it means that you will get your rear slapped. If said by a peer, it means they are going to beat you up.
2007-01-31 10:32:04 · answer #5 · answered by cfpops 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it means to pay you back in the book tom sawyer the servant boy complains on tom to aunt Polly and so tom gets punished so he runs away from his house shouting that he would lick him or pay him back for that
2007-02-02 00:46:24 · answer #6 · answered by deevapinto 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be considered an expression in a Southern dialect, yes. It means, "I'll beat you."
2007-01-31 10:32:51 · answer #7 · answered by elk312 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"lick" is slang for beat (as in a game) or beat up (as in a fight)..depending on the context. I wouldn't say it is a dialect, so much as old southern slang.
2007-01-31 10:33:27 · answer #8 · answered by nexgenjenith 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It refers to beating someone up in a fist fight. Yes, it is a dialect. Many southerners have used it.
2007-01-31 10:31:53 · answer #9 · answered by Viewaskew 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
In those days "lick" meant "fight" or "beat up." So Tom is threatening to beat up this other boy.
2007-01-31 10:33:40 · answer #10 · answered by ImagoDei 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋