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lick-platters

lick-platters is the plural of lick-platter.

Meaning of lick-platter

Noun

lick-platter (plural lick-platters)

  1. (obsolete) 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...

Questions about lick-platters

What is lick-platters the plural of?
Lick-platters is the plural of lick-platter.

Words near lick-platters in the dictionary

  1. lick-box
  2. lick-boxes
  3. lick-dish
  4. lick-dishes
  5. lick-platter
  6. lick-platters
  7. lick-spigot
  8. lick-spigots
  9. lick-spittle
  10. lick-spittles
  11. lick-trencher

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