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- LICKSPITTLE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of LICKSPITTLE is a fawning subordinate : toady
- LICKSPITTLE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
LICKSPITTLE definition: 1 a person who praises and tries to please people in authority, usually in order to get some… Learn more
- lickspittle - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
lickspittle (third-person singular simple present lickspittles, present participle lickspittling, simple past and past participle lickspittled) ( transitive and intransitive ) To play the toady; take the role of a lickspittle to please (someone)
- lickspittle, n. adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English . . .
What does the word lickspittle mean? There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the word lickspittle See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
- LICKSPITTLE Definition Meaning - Dictionary. com
a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady Examples have not been reviewed The man has always been a coward and a lickspittle He was not even moved to protect his own lickspittle, the vice president, who was in the chamber when it was attacked
- lickspittle — Wordorigins. org
A lickspittle is a sycophant or toady, one who figuratively laps up the saliva of their master The metaphor appears by 1586 in a commentary on the biblical book of Haggai by John James Gryneus:
- LICKSPITTLE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
Lickspittle or someone capable of independent thought Lickspittle begins to dream of ministerial office Finally, we come to my coveted 'lickspittle of the year' award Serious cases were always decided by lickspittle judges The leaden bathos, insincere congratulations and lickspittle teasing were all cringingly, mesmerisingly grisly
- Lickspittle - definition of lickspittle by The Free Dictionary
Define lickspittle lickspittle synonyms, lickspittle pronunciation, lickspittle translation, English dictionary definition of lickspittle n A fawning underling; a toady
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