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Lickspittle (A)

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A servile toady.

“His heart too great, though fortune little,

To lick a rascal statesman’s spittle.”


 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Libra [the balance]
Library
Libya
Licentiate
Lich
Lichten
Lick
Lick into Shape (To)
Lick the Dust (To)
Licks the Butter
Lickspittle (A)
Lictors
Lid
Lidskialfa [the terror of nations]
Lie
Lie Circumstantial (The)
Lie Direct (The)
Lie Quarrelsome (The)
Lie hath no Feet (A)
Lie
Lie Low (To)