lickpot
lickpot noun: the forefinger.
Noun
lickpot (plural lickpots)
- The forefinger.
- Coordinate term: thumbkin
- Fife-men and pipers braw, Merry deils, tak them a', Gown, lace, and livery — lickpot and ladle ; Jockey shall wear the hood, Jenny the sark of God — For codpiece and petticoat, dishclout and daidle.1820, The Edinburgh Review - Volume 34, page 156
- Synonyms:
- arrow-finger, demonstrator, first finger, forefinger, index, index finger, pointer, pointer finger, pointling, showing finger
- An untrustworthy sycophant.
- . And the message that came was by the mouth of a kind of jackal or lickpot of John Dick's — who, for reasons of his own, hated me, chiefly because I took no share in the foulness of him and his subservient crew.1896, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Grey Man - Volume 1, page 114
- Maybe ye'll not have another chance before the gallows gets ye ! Off with ye now, for a dirty fingered, lickpot sneak, or I'll break the fiddle over the shoulders of ye!"1911, Maurice Hewlett, The Song of Renny, page 215
- Synonyms:
- lickspittle, sycophant, toady, adulator, apple polisher, arse-kisser, arse-licker, ass-kisser, ass-licker, bootlick
Examples of lickpot in a sentence
- Everyone said, "Oh," and held up the finger we call "lickpot," and nodded his head.1955, Hans Christian Andersen, Six fairy tales by the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen:
- No, only little Peter Playman; dear Thumbkin, Lickpot, and Longman were grabbing hardness under the gray cloth, shaping the flat oblong of hardness.1970, Harriette Louisa Simpson Arnow, The weedkiller's daughter, page 356:
- The use of the index finger to scoop the remaining juices from the cooking pot up to the lips gave it the finely appropriate name of 'the lickpot.'2008, Peter C. D. Brears, Cooking and Dining in Medieval England, page 214:
Synonyms of lickpot
- arrow-finger
- demonstrator
- first finger
- forefinger
- index
- index finger
- pointer
- pointer finger
- pointling
- showing finger
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- teacher
- trigger finger
- lickspittle
- sycophant
- toady
- adulator
- apple polisher
- arse-kisser
- arse-licker
- ass-kisser
- ass-licker
- bootlick
- bootlicker
- buttkisser
- buttlicker
- brownnose
- brown noser
- dickrider
- doormat
- flatterer
- flunkey
- groveler
- groveller
- hanger-on
- kiss-ass
- lackey
- minion
- people pleaser
- pickthank
- schmoozer
Forms of lickpot
| plural | lickpots |
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Origin of lickpot
From Middle English likpot; equivalent to lick + pot, presumably from the act of using a finger to clean a pot after eating.
Questions about lickpot
- What does lickpot mean?
- Lickpot means the forefinger.
- How do you use lickpot in a sentence?
- Everyone said, "Oh," and held up the finger we call "lickpot," and nodded his head.
- What part of speech is lickpot?
- Lickpot is a noun.
- What is the plural of lickpot?
- The plural of lickpot is lickpots.
Words near lickpot in the dictionary
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