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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who is abject enough to lick, as it were, another's spittle; a vulgar flatterer or parasite.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An abject flatterer or parasite.

Examples

  • “I've lost count of the number of lick-spittle sack-ferrets like Khan and Balls saying that 'the public are smart enough to know this, that and the other.”

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?

  • “Even Hawks, on rare occasion, can originate thought and not emulate lick-spittle courtiers of the war industry.”

    O'Hanlon Sighting: He Says Obama's No Nukes Comment Was Right!

  • “It was the stupid and ill-conceived idea of Bush and his lick-spittle GOP lackeys in Congress who overwhelmingtly supported this adventure at the get-go and on to the present.”

    Quote Of The Day

  • “The lick-spittle by Laudyms on Thursday, Jan 8, 2009 at 3: 37: 50 PM”

    Amnesty vs. AIPAC: Senate to Consider AIPAC Resolution Endorsing War in Gaza

  • “In the slave-labor market, “trouble-making” is anything other than being a lick-spittle for whatever meager food and shelter is passed along.”

    OpEdNews - Diary: Turning the Immigration Tide

  • “Or, and this is distressingly possible, they figure they can bully the Dems in the senate into approving another lick-spittle lackey more loyal to Bush than to the Constitution.”

    2007 August 27 « Lean Left

  • “No lick-spittle lies to me; those letters, that I may establish them!”

    Mary Anerley

  • “He was "no dough-faced, lick-spittle proposition," Sunday proclaimed, but "the greatest scrapper who ever lived.”

    Philocrites: Celebrity Jesus.

  • “All the best to you and staff for Xmas, bar lick-spittle Wells.”

    FallNews

  • “Well, bugger that, and please excuse my outbreak of cursing, but really that familiar lick-spittle little left-wing masturbationer of a corporal, to lecture me about my religion ... ”

    A Rude Awakening

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