lickpot

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The forefinger. archaic,childish
    — Coordinate term: thumbkin
  2. An untrustworthy sycophant.
    — . And the message that came was by the mouth of a kind of jackal or lickpot of John Dick's — who, for reasons of his own, hated me, chiefly because I took no share in the foulness of him and his subservient crew.

词形变化

lickpots plural

词源

From Middle English likpot; equivalent to lick + pot, presumably from the act of using a finger to clean a pot after eating.
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