Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (W.I.) pernickety, choosy, esp. as to one’s food;.

1942

L. Bennett ‘Labrish’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 13: Curry goat an rice an bread! All like how yuh licky-licky, / Yuh hooda ketch home dead!

2. (W.I.) never satisfied, in the sense of greedy, gluttonous [f. sense 1 above].

1950

Bennett, Clarke & Wilson Anancy Stories and Dialect Verse 56: Doah me no got long bella-gut / An me no licky-licky, / Me can put weh a hearty meal. / Me kean nyam picky-picky! [Ibid.] 100: licky-licky – gluttonous.

3. (UK black) alcoholic; drinking to excess.

1999		(con. 1979–80) A. Wheatle Brixton Rock (2004) 28: ‘She can sneak out of her yard without her licky-licky mother noticing.’ [...] ‘What, Sharon’s mother is a ’colic?’.
2005		(con. c.1945) A. Wheatle Island Songs (2006) 68: Yuh been too licky licky tonight wid de fire-water!