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lick-trenchers

lick-trenchers is the plural of lick-trencher.

Meaning of lick-trencher

Noun

lick-trencher (plural lick-trenchers)

  1. (obsolete) 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

Questions about lick-trenchers

What is lick-trenchers the plural of?
Lick-trenchers is the plural of lick-trencher.

Words near lick-trenchers in the dictionary

  1. lick-spigot
  2. lick-spigots
  3. lick-spittle
  4. lick-spittles
  5. lick-trencher
  6. lick-trenchers
  7. lick-twat
  8. lick-twats
  9. lick-wimble
  10. lick-wimbles
  11. lickability

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