Definitions
Etymologies
- A compounding: lick ("pass one’s tongue over") + spittle ("saliva"); the verb may derive by back-formation from the nominal derivation lickspittling (see below). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Gates is Reaganaut lickspittle, which is not a step up from Nixon lickspittle.”
“So yes, I can understand not wanting to use the tube, avoiding the tube, avoid the subject, avoid facing that you will always be 'other' - because our society in the west demands individuality....but in very narrow margins, and you like playing with the individuality they allow you like lickspittle which is why I also think you hate the tube so much.”
“That delightful word 'lickspittle' must have been coined with him in mind.”
“Such epithets as "lickspittle," "toad," "carcass blown with the putrefying gas of its own importance," were read in the body of narration.”
“The movie's Madoff manqué is a shifty financier named Arthur Shaw (a perfectly unctuous Alan Alda), who occupies the penthouse of "The Tower"—a building that, in keeping with the film's fidelity to understatement, is actually the Trump International Hotel & Tower on Manhattan's Columbus Circle, a luxury dwelling where a staff, led by chief lickspittle Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller), pampers a plush population.”
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“In that sense Labour and its lickspittle claque of hangers-on has done us all a great service and has ensured that Mr. Wilders and his views get enormous publicity.”
“Philip Davies called the Liberal Democrats "lickspittle Euro-fanatics".”
The Guardian: The Eurosceptics have taken over the asylum | Simon Hoggart's sketch
“I trust that that will not be enough to satisfy his electors and that another lickspittle Labour MP will lose his seat.”
“The Queen approves the wearing of medals awarded whilst serving in the Forces, surely only she can stop them from being worn and not on the whim of some desk bound * % $%£ lickspittle who only got to that position by crawling up superiors arses? on February 10, 2010 at 9: 22 am Ranter”
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“And if they learn nothing else, they should learn that open contempt is the proper respect due to a lickspittle sociopath like Woo.”
Discourse.net: Australian View of John Yoo's Class at Berkeley
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lickspittle’.
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set phasers to...
you name the setting
I've tuned mine to be gentler and kinder
following suit is not mandatory but would be appreciatedcoddle, confuse, flummox, tap, furrow, instigate, invigorate, punnify, logical, must... act... be..., bowdlerise, laughing gas and 435 more...
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Silly-sounding words
Serious words that sound silly when you say them
philosophunculist, argy-bargy, Labradoodle, shittah, shittim, floccinaucinihili..., succedaneum, honorificabilitud..., fag-ma-fuff, buffarilla, yazzihamper, mammothrept and 140 more...
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Nincompoopery
Words that clatter and tumble
nincompoop, pettyfoggery, gaberlunzie, cattywampus, weisenheimer, katzenjammer, hecklephone, loblolly, carriwitchet, flibbertyjibbet, hornswoggle, thimblerigger and 161 more...
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Gapeseeds and Muckworms - Compound De...
A list of compound derogatory names such as gapeseed, muckworm and lickspittle. Your one-word contributions to this list are welcome.
See sionnach's list derogatory terms I should use ...gapeseed, muckworm, lickspittle, makeweight, bootlicker, backscratcher, apple-polisher, backslapper, brownnoser, rakeshame, yesman, freeloader and 293 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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Killjoy et al
Namely, compounds consisting of a verb with a direct object immediately after it, without inflection
killjoy, lickspigot, quakebuttock, throttlebottom, scattergood, scapegrace, swillbowl, tosspot, breakfast, cutthroat, pickpocket, dreadnought and 84 more...
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The Pits
armpit, pit, pits, cockpit, pity, pithy, pit bull terrier, pit boss, pit stop, pitcher, fire pit, peach pit and 76 more...
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A Song of Ice and Fire
Vocabulary from the epic fantasy series by George R. R. Martin!
destrier, wroth, garron, portcullis, craven, lickspittle, palfrey, ermine, surcoat, brigandine, doublet, deign and 7 more...
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Wrongheads
Insults that make me laugh. Some of these are re-contextualized because they sound like insults to me.
wretched, dasdardly, sniveling, dingbat, rankle, vapid, ninny, nincompoop, dolt, imbecile, fucktard, scoundrel and 173 more...
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Learned
ambergris, andiron, aphelion, austral, bellicose, boreal, bravura, chaff, chicanery, creditable, credulous, decamp and 223 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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geekwad's Words
mysterium, elif, reckon, shadowy, ostensibly, unique, foodie, surreptitiously, asynchronous, insane, berserk, space pirate and 235 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
Tweets
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reesetee I agree. I'd rather call someone an abject flatterer (dictionary definition). Mar 3, 2007
abraxaszugzwang this word is so gross. Mar 3, 2007