Sycophant - English meaning

noun

An obsequious or servile person.

Usage examples:

He's got bootlickers telling him what a big star he's going to be

noun

Someone who praises or is extremely polite to a more powerful or rich person in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get an advantage for themselves

Usage examples:

Even after years of being a magnet for bootlickers and overzealous admirers, he's still just a nice…

verb

To try too hard to please someone, especially someone in a position of authority, in a way that other people find unpleasant

Usage examples:

The rest of the class were sick of watching him brown-nose.

noun

A thing that crawls or moves at a slow pace, especially an insect.

Usage examples:

The light bulb was a magnet for moths and many-legged crawlers

verb

Move slowly and carefully in order to avoid being heard or noticed.

Usage examples:

He crept downstairs, hardly making any noise

noun

A detestable person.

Usage examples:

I thought he was a nasty little creep

verb

Move slowly

noun

A mat placed in a doorway, on which people can wipe their shoes on entering a building.

Usage examples:

The group is looking at manufacturing doormats and shoe soles out of recycled footwear.

noun

A piece of usually rough material outside a door to a house or apartment where people can clean their shoes before entering

noun

A person who gives a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection.

Usage examples:

Powerful people are always surrounded by fawners

noun

A person who lavishes praise, often insincerely; a sycophant.

Usage examples:

He is not allowing flatterers to deceive him

noun

A liveried manservant or footman.

Usage examples:

Liveried flunkies rushed forward to open the doors, tv lights flared, cameras flashed and the crowd…

noun

A person who does unimportant work or who has few or no important responsibilities and shows too much respect toward his or her employer

Usage examples:

He could snap his fingers and get his flunky to do it.

noun

A person who tries to be friendly and spend time with rich or important people to get some advantage

Usage examples:

Wherever there are rock stars, there are always hangers-on.

noun

An aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. many species are bloodsucking parasites, especially of vertebrates, and others are predators.

Usage examples:

The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic leeches that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker.

verb

Habitually exploit or rely on.

Usage examples:

He's leeching off the abilities of others

noun

A doctor or healer.

noun

A person who behaves obsequiously to those in power.

Usage examples:

He is a lickspittle for the establishment

noun

A person who praises and tries to please people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them

Usage examples:

He is a lickspittle who fawns before his aristocratic employers.

noun

A follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one.

Usage examples:

He gets oppressed minions like me to fob them off

noun

A person who is not important and who has to do what another person of higher rank orders them to do

Usage examples:

He sent one of his minions to do something about it.

noun

A movable model of a person or animal that is typically moved either by strings controlled from above or by a hand inside it.

Usage examples:

A puppet show

abbreviation

Second(s).

contraction

Is.

Usage examples:

It's raining

prefix

(used chiefly in oaths) god's.

Usage examples:

'sblood

noun

A dog of a breed with a long silky coat and drooping ears.

Usage examples:

In the middle ages, a type of spaniel was bred, the ancestor of some of our modern spaniels, that w…

noun

A type of dog of small or medium size with soft hair and long ears that hang down

noun

A person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.

Usage examples:

He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady, a…

verb

Act in an obsequious way.

Usage examples:

She imagined him toadying to his rich clients

noun

A person who praises and is artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them

Usage examples:

Everywhere he goes he is surrounded by an entourage of toadies., shostakovich was often seen as a p…

noun

A person who agrees with everything their employer, leader, etc. says in order to please them