arslikhan en · NOUN
Etymology
Alteration of arse-licking. Coined by Private Eye.
Meanings
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(UK, slang, uncountable) Overt flattery, especially in print.
As this passage suggests, Masters is a graduate of the Arslikhan school of biography.
1996, Francis Wheen, Lord Gnome's Literary Companion, Verso, →ISBN, page 226:We'll have a couple of after-dinner speeches – I'll say a few words, interspersing a couple of jokes with a vote of arslikhan thanks for their business, and then introduce our guest speaker.
2012, David Croydon, The Unprincipled, Hilltop Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:The constituency's large Jewish population is in open revolt over the Foreign Secretary's Arafat arslikhan.
1981, Private Eye: