lick-platter en · NOUN
Etymology
From lick + platter.
Meanings
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(obsolete) A sycophant.
And as for freedom from malignant personalities, he might have been a model to all critics. I must except politics, however, for in these he could be rabid and savage. He had a passion for independence, which, though pushed to excess, was not without grandeur. No lick-platter, no parasite, no toadeater, no literary beggar, no hunter after patronage and subscriptions; even in his dealings with Audley Egerton, he insisted on naming the price for his labours.
1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XXIII, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book sixth, page 186:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| lick-platters | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
adulator · white knight · throne sniffer · groveller · flatterer · minion · buttkisser · lick-platter · sycophant · apple polisher · lick-trencher · arse-licker · ass-kisser · brownnose · schmoozer · kiss-ass · toadeater · groveler · people pleaser · bootlick · buttlicker · lickpot · lick-plate · flunkey · dickrider · ass-licker · bootlicker · simp · lickspittle · brown noser · pickthank · doormat · clawback · toady · arse-kisser · lick-dish · hanger-on · suck up · lackey