lick-platter
lick-platter noun: a sycophant.
Noun
lick-platter (plural lick-platters)
- A sycophant.
- And as for freedom from malignant personalities, he might have been a model to all critics. I must except politics, however, for in these he could be rabid and savage. He had a passion for independence, which, though pushed to excess, was not without grandeur. No lick-platter, no parasite, no...1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XXIII, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book...
- Synonyms:
- lick-dish, lick-plate, lick-trencher, adulator, apple polisher, arse-kisser, arse-licker, ass-kisser, ass-licker, bootlick
Synonyms of lick-platter
- lick-dish
- lick-plate
- lick-trencher
- adulator
- apple polisher
- arse-kisser
- arse-licker
- ass-kisser
- ass-licker
- bootlick
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Forms of lick-platter
| plural | lick-platters |
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Origin of lick-platter
From lick + platter.
Questions about lick-platter
- What does lick-platter mean?
- Lick-platter means a sycophant.
- What part of speech is lick-platter?
- Lick-platter is a noun.
- What is the plural of lick-platter?
- The plural of lick-platter is lick-platters.
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