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Definition of Lickspittle
1. n. An abject flatterer or parasite.
Definition of Lickspittle
1. Noun. A fawning toady; a base sycophant. ¹
2. Noun. (context: by extension) The practice of giving empty flattery for personal gain. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) Play the toady to (someone); take the rôle of a lickspittle to please (someone). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lickspittle
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lickspittle
Literary usage of Lickspittle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Logic of History: Five Hundred Political Texts; Being Concentrated Extracts by Stephen D. Carpenter (1864)
"... on the- "lickspittle Administration"..4"Milwaukee Sentinel" Disloyal to the
... lickspittle ..."
2. Diary, from ... 1861-(1863). by Adam Gurowski (1864)
"... Halleck — the Batchers—The lickspittle Republican Press—War Committee
patriot* —Youth—People—King out. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"I mean Pat Neil, the hypocritical apostate lickspittle, Pat Neil, and his brother.
This miscreant got L. 70 a-year for voting against his country, ..."
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