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- transitive verb To take up (drink or food) with the tongue; to drink by licking up.
- transitive verb To accept or enjoy enthusiatically and uncritically.
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- verb To consume by
lapping - verb idiomatic To
revel in, to overtlyenjoy
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- verb take up with the tongue
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"Lapping up a word, I get the feeling that my mind just doesn't exist for the world." – Oswald Wiener, die verbesserund des mitteleuropa, tr. Joachim Neugroschel, quoted in Christopher Middleton, Bolshevism in Art (Manchester: Carcanet New Press, 1978), p. 13.
December 1, 2007