LickitySplit??? Where the hell did that phrase come from?

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Kinda sexy considering it's probably ancient in origin.

Sound Irish or English - don't know though.

Do Irish give head?
 
Reminds me a joke my mother told me when I was younger:

Question: If a car load of gays (Forgive me if terms offend anyone) and a car load of lesbos were to race, which car would get there faster?

Answer: The Lesbos go lickity split while the gays just poke around.

shrugs :p
 
Actually its Italian

Guiseppe Verde Mascarpone was conversing with his pal Gino Mortadello one day. Gino was bemoaning his inabillity to satisfy his wife.

Guiseppe, a noted cunnilinguist and motivational speaker told him.... "Is simple Gino, and very quick, you licka de split and she be happy"
 
Actually its not at all that ancient. It dates bates to early just this century during the war time. Most people are familar with the chinese girls going around and saying "Me Fucky, Sucky you real good GI"

Well in time when the chinese men met our beautiful tall sexy women they adopted the line "Me Lickey Splitey you americana women really good"
 
Good tries guys.....

If anyone here would know the true origin of this phrase - it would be Purple Haze.
 
It's kind of interesting, I opened this thread for a daily dose of Sparky and I find myself overwhelmed by a picture. Call me a bitch or an apologist, but LL, your pic thing is just obnoxious, particularly coupled with your title. I find the pic is irritating. Not just because it makes my little 56k laptop move slower, but it takes up the screen. Hell, even Sparky's normal oomph was de-oomphed by it. Must you?
 
Todd said:
Actually its not at all that ancient. It dates bates to early just this century during the war time. Most people are familar with the chinese girls going around and saying "Me Fucky, Sucky you real good GI"

Well in time when the chinese men met our beautiful tall sexy women they adopted the line "Me Lickey Splitey you americana women really good"

I'm not overly sensitive about my heritage, Todd, but I find this mildly offensive.
 
Whispersecret said:
Todd said:
Actually its not at all that ancient. It dates bates to early just this century during the war time. Most people are familar with the chinese girls going around and saying "Me Fucky, Sucky you real good GI"

Well in time when the chinese men met our beautiful tall sexy women they adopted the line "Me Lickey Splitey you americana women really good"

I'm not overly sensitive about my heritage, Todd, but I find this mildly offensive.

My apolgies No offense was meant I will remove my post and you can its quote if you want me to.
 
Is it any wonder I love this board? From lickety-split to shove your foot so far in your mouth, you taste toe jam.
 
lickety, adv. colloq. (chiefly U.S.).



Usu. prefixed to another word, as lickety-split, at full speed; headlong. Also (nonce-wd.) as v. Also lickety-cut, -smash, -wallop, etc.

1817 D. McKillop Poems 33, I rattl'd owre the A, B, C, as fast as lickitie An' read like hickitie. 1831 Boston Even. Transcript 4 June 2/2 He ran down the street licketty cut, and is probably at home by this time. 1847 J. S. Robb Streaks of Squatter Life 116 Away they started, ‘lickety-click’, and arrived at the winning-post within touching distance of each other. 1848 in Amer. Speech (1935) X. 40 Lickoty liner, going very fast. 1858 Harper's Mag. May 766/2 There they had it, lickety-switch, rough-and-tumble. 1859 Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) Lickety Split, very fast, headlong; synonymous with the equally elegant phrase ‘full chisel’. ‘He went lickety split down hill.’ 1863 L. M. Alcott Hospital Sk. iii. 40 When my mate, Eph Sylvester, caved, with a bullet through his head, I got mad, and pitched in, licketty cut. 1869 Mrs. Stowe Oldtown Folks xxviii. 358, I tell you if they didn't whip up an' go lickety-split down that 'ere hill. 1886 [see bump v.1 2e]. 1897 [see band n.3 4b]. 1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter ix. 122 You're worse'n a old huntin' dog that goes sky-hootin' off lickety-split after a rabbit. 1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country ix. 141 They rattled the vehicle lickety-smash at a hand-gallop across the flower-strewn plains. 1934 W. Saroyan Daring Young Man (1935) 131 And then he was running lickety split across the school grounds. 1949 O. Nash Versus 111 Firemen, what is your destination?+ You have lickety-splitted by so often that my thoughts Are utterly split-licketed. 1949 Powys & Bolton tr. Guitry's Don't Listen Ladies in Plays of Year I. 566, I was coming along the street not thinking of anything, and suddenly you came out and shot past me, lickerty-split. 1949 Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite iii. 48 If I was you, I'd hop into that car of yours and drive lickerty-split to London and get another bust. 1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. ii. 87 We took out our cars lickety-clickety at the call. 1960 V. Nabokov Bend Sinister ii. 17 The old men overtook him in their turn, clattering lickety-split through the mist. 1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze x. 245 While going lickety-spit+they had come up against the formidable 15th Panzer Grenadier Division+, and they were lucky not to have been chased into the sea. 1972 A. Fowles Double Feature xiii. 240 If one of his outriders radios in that Chau Chieu is there he'll come licketty split. 1972 Last Whole Earth Catalog (Portola Inst.) 305/3 Just like that. Stopped in here a few minutes, then took off up that creek lickety-split.
 
KillerMuffin said:
It's kind of interesting, I opened this thread for a daily dose of Sparky and I find myself overwhelmed by a picture. Call me a bitch or an apologist, but LL, your pic thing is just obnoxious, particularly coupled with your title. I find the pic is irritating. Not just because it makes my little 56k laptop move slower, but it takes up the screen. Hell, even Sparky's normal oomph was de-oomphed by it. Must you?

What Pic? Am I missing something?
 
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