8 February 2018

lickspittle

[lik-spit-l]

noun

1. a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady.

Also, Archaic, lickspit [lik-spit]

Origin of lickspittle

1620-1630 First recorded in 1620-30; lick + spittle

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Examples from the Web for lickspittle

Historical Examples

You get up right after midnight to practice being a lickspittle and a trimmer!
Such is Life
Frank Wedekind

Anagram

tilt pickles
ticket spill
let lipstick

Today’s quote

It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

– Henry Ward Beecher

On this day

8 February 1238 – Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.

8 February 1587 – Mary Queen of Scots is executed for her apparent role in the failed Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

8 February 1952 – Princess Elizabeth declares herself Queen of the British Commonwealth, taking the title, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

8 February 1960 – Queen Elizabeth II issues an Order-in-Council declaring that her family would be known as the House of Windsor and her descendants will take the name ‘Mountbatten-Windsor’.

8 February 1983 – At 3pm, Australia’s second largest city, Melbourne, is hit by a massive dust-storm, towering 320m high, reducing visibility to 100m and turning day into night. The dust-storm came during the most severe drought on record and was caused by loose top-soil in the Mallee and Wimmera districts of western Victoria being whipped up by fierce northerly winds. Other places in Victoria recorded dust as high as 1,000m. It was estimated that 1000 tonnes of dust was dumped on the city, with another 50,000 tonnes passing over Melbourne. Earlier in the day, the temperature had peaked at 43.2oC – the hottest February day on record at that time. This photo was taken by a motorist heading west on the Princes Highway at Werribee.