unlicked cub
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"Cut it, you unlicked cub, until you can begin to use that half-liter of golop you call a brain," Garlock said, harshly.
From The Galaxy Primes by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
Frank looked down upon the school-boy as an unlicked cub without two ideas; the bodily defect he endeavoured to cure by frequent outward applications, but the mental shortcoming was beneath his efforts.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
“Oh, but I thought it was only a snake!” said the youth, with that air of unmistakable self-satisfaction which at once indicates the unlicked cub.
From The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich by A.W. Drayson
"An unlicked cub would first annoy me by his foolish teasing, then would cause me to be carried through the air to the land of the sacred Ganges."
From Tahara Among African Tribes by Harold M. Sherman
They've got a new fellow they are trying to push in, a young unlicked cub that Peter Calvin's running.
From The Philistines by Arlo Bates
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