Definition of Bootlicks

1. Verb. (third-person singular of bootlick) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bootlicks

1. bootlick [v] - See also: bootlick

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bootlicks

bootlegger reverse
bootlegger reverses
bootleggers
bootlegging
bootlegs
bootles
bootless
bootlessly
bootlessness
bootlessnesses
bootlick
bootlicked
bootlicker
bootlickers
bootlicking
bootlicks (current term)
bootlike
bootload
bootloader
bootloaders
bootloads
bootmaker
bootmakers
bootmaking
bootneck
bootnecks
bootprint
bootprints
boots
boots and all

Literary usage of Bootlicks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... about reading or studies from one who if he made a friendly call on a student would be suspected to be a spy, and the familiar terms—bootlicks, blues, ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1902)
"... meted out to those who call upon an instructor socially, seek information about reading or studies ; and the familiar terms, bootlicks, blues, curriers, ..."

3. The Writings of Cassius Marcellus Clay: Including Speeches and Addresses by Cassius Marcellus Clay (1848)
"... and its Northern bootlicks 1 Is this not a free country ? Is it not the land of the rights of man ? Is not this the home of the oppressed ? ..."

4. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1856)
"They are bootlicks, and that is known as Bootlicking ; a reproach, I am sorry to say, too indiscriminately applied." At Yale, and other colleges, ..."

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