lickspittle
/ˈlɪkspɪtl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.38 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""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.”"
- "Like a moustachioed pantomime villain relishing boos and hisses from the audience, Trump is oblivious to warnings and protestations from the sane world and simply contemptuous of the lickspittle mob desperately hoping to go unnoticed."
Etymology
A compounding: lick (“pass one’s tongue over”) + spittle (“saliva”); the verb may derive by back-formation from the nominal derivation lickspittling (see below).
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈlɪkspɪtl/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
lickspittling
lickspittlery