lickpots

Noun

lickpot (plural lickpots)

1. (archaic, childish) The forefinger.
   • Coordinate term: thumbkin

   Synonyms:

   arrow-finger, demonstrator, first finger, forefinger, index, index finger, pointer, pointer finger, pointling, showing finger

2. 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

   Synonyms:

   lickspittle, sycophant, toady, adulator, apple polisher, arse-kisser, arse-licker, ass-kisser, ass-licker, bootlick