tuft-hunter
1tuft-hunter — a sycophant From seeking the company of wealthier Oxford undergraduates sporting gold tassels on their mortar boards rather than black: An unabashed tuft hunter, he faithfully followed the Jesuit tradition established in England of… …
2tuft-hunter — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: tuft (I) (sense 4) : one that seeks association with persons of title or high social status : snob …
3tuft hunter — sycophant (British Slang) …
4tuft-hunter — n. Hanger on (to noblemen and persons of quality), sycophant, parasite, flatterer, lick spittle, fawner, spaniel, toad eater …
5Selfishness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Selfishness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 selfishness selfishness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 self love self love self indulgence self worship self interest Sgm: N 1 egotism egotism egoism Sgm: N 1 amour propre …
6servility — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Obsequiousness Nouns 1. servility, obsequiousness, subserviency; abasement (see humility); prostration, genuflection; fawning, ingratiation; tuft hunting, timeserving, flunkyism; sycophancy, flattery.… …
7Isaac Heard — Infobox Person name = Isaac Heard caption = Sir Isaac Heard birth date = birth date|1730|12|10|mf=y birth place = Ottery St Mary, England dead = dead death date = death date and age|1822|4|29|1730|12|10|mf=ySir Isaac Heard (10 December 1730… …
8Lord William Pitt Lennox — (1799–1881), army officer and writer.Lennox, fourth son of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, was born at Winestead Hall, Yorkshire, 20 Sept. 1799, and was a godson of William Pitt and a cousin of Charles James Fox. He was educated at… …
9Leibniz (from) to Kant — From Leibniz to Kant Lewis White Beck INTRODUCTION Had Kant not lived, German philosophy between the death of Leibniz in 1716 and the end of the eighteenth century would have little interest for us, and would remain largely unknown. In Germany… …
10flunkey — n. [Written also Flunky.] 1. Lackey, livery servant. 2. Mean fellow, mean spirited person, obsequious person, toady, snob, tuft hunter. 3. (Colloq., U. S.) Dupe (in buying stocks) …
