lick-trencher
lick-trencher noun: a sycophant.
Noun
lick-trencher (plural lick-trenchers)
- A sycophant
- Why Peniculus worship, that whorson lick-trencher, your Parasiticall attendant.1595, W. W., transl., Menechmus, translation of Menaechmi by Titus Maccius Plautus, act 2, scene 1; republished as Shakespeare's Library, volume 5, London: Reeves and Turner, 1875, page 12
- The earliest known picture of William Hogarth is one called the Wanstead Assembly, long, and by a ridiculous blunder, corrupted into "Wandsworth." The term "Assembly" was a little bit of art-slang. A portrait being a portrait, and a "conversation" a group of persons generally belonging to one...1860 May, “William Hogarth: Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher—IV. The Painter's Progress”, in Cornhill Magazine, pages 565–566
Forms of lick-trencher
| plural | lick-trenchers |
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Origin of lick-trencher
From lick + trencher. Compare lick-dish, lick-plate, lick-platter.
Questions about lick-trencher
- What does lick-trencher mean?
- Lick-trencher means a sycophant.
- What part of speech is lick-trencher?
- Lick-trencher is a noun.
- What is the plural of lick-trencher?
- The plural of lick-trencher is lick-trenchers.
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