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/lik"spit'l/, n.a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady.Also, lickspit.[1620-30; LICK + SPITTLE]
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lickspittle — also lick spittle, sycophant, abject toady, 1741, from LICK (Cf. lick) (v.1) + SPITTLE (Cf. spittle) … Etymology dictionary
lickspittle — *parasite, sycophant, toady, bootlicker, hanger on, leech, sponge, sponger, favorite … New Dictionary of Synonyms
lickspittle — ► NOUN ▪ a person who behaves obsequiously to those in power … English terms dictionary
lickspittle — [lik′spit΄ l] n. a servile flatterer; toady … English World dictionary
lickspittle — 1. noun /ˈlɪkspɪtl/ a) A fawning toady; a base sycophant.<ref name= OED:lick spittle /> b) The practice of giving empty flattery for personal gain. Syn: brown noser … Wiktionary
lickspittle — A little used word referring to someone who is so sycophantic that he would lick someone’s spittle from the ground. In occasional use since the seventeenth century, and alluded to by Howard Jacobson in Redback. ‘someone had even hissed… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
lickspittle — noun Date: 1825 a fawning subordinate ; toady … New Collegiate Dictionary
lickspittle — noun a person who behaves obsequiously to those in power … English new terms dictionary
lickspittle — n. Abject parasite, mean flatterer, lick platter, lick trencher … New dictionary of synonyms
lickspittle — n toady, sycophant, toadeater, tuft hunter, fawning flatterer, truckler; flatterer, backslap per, backscratcher, timeserver, Inf. apple polisher, Sl. brown nose, Sl. brown noser, Sl. brownie, Obs., Rare. blander, Archaic. pickthank; parasite,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
