lickspittle

noun

1. A fawning toady; a base sycophant.

   “"I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle!"”

   “"You're a suck, a suck and a lickspittle, that's what you are," said the pale man, his voice trembling with passion.”

   “His preposterous insults were legendary, and there are accounts of his small-hour attacks on petty moralists and literary lickspittles in obscure Madrid dives where he chain-smoked and drank gallons of gin.”

   “In Ottawa, Senator Marjory LeBreton claimed in a speech on Wednesday that allegations of spending abuses by her colleagues were “hyped-up media stories” that were inevitable in a “town populated by Liberal elites and their media lickspittles.””

   ““I frankly couldn't give a cat's knuckle about Gizmo. I mean, he's just kind of this fluttering lickspittle that is always bouncing about, always behind Nandor. But Nandor likes him.” “Oh, shut up, Colin Robinson. You're giving me the pip.””

2. (broadly)The practice of giving empty flattery for personal gain.

verb

1. (intransitive, transitive)To play the toady; take the role of a lickspittle to please (someone).

   “"[Y]ou take his side, and that is wrong! ...If some young school teacher, or some young lad, lickspittles to him, it's bad enough."”