lickspittle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈlɪkspɪtl/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fawning toady; a base sycophant.
    — "I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle!"
  2. The practice of giving empty flattery for personal gain. broadly
动词 v.
  1. To play the toady; take the role of a lickspittle to please (someone). intransitive,transitive
    — "[Y]ou take his side, and that is wrong! ...If some young school teacher, or some young lad, lickspittles to him, it's bad enough."

词形变化

lickspittles plural lick-spittle alternative lickspittles present,singular,third-person lickspittling participle,present lickspittled participle,past lickspittled past lick-spittle alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
lickspittling lickspittlery

词源

词源 1
A compounding: lick (“pass one’s tongue over”) + spittle (“saliva”); the verb may derive by back-formation from the nominal derivation lickspittling (see below).
词源 2
A compounding: lick (“pass one’s tongue over”) + spittle (“saliva”); the verb may derive by back-formation from the nominal derivation lickspittling (see below).
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