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bootlicker
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bootlicker has 1 sense
- bootlicker(n = noun.person) apple polisher, fawner, groveler, groveller, truckler - someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect; Array is a kind of ass-kisser, crawler, lackey, sycophant, toady
Derived form verb bootlick1
CIDE DICTIONARY
bootlicker, n.
someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as he had no self-respect. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bootlicker, n. colloq. a person who behaves obsequiously or servilely; a toady.
THESAURUS
bootlicker
apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlick, brown-nose, brownie, clawback, courtier, creature, cringer, dupe, fawner, flatterer, flunky, footlicker, groveler, handshaker, helot, instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, peon, puppet, serf, slave, spaniel, stooge, suck, sycophant, timeserver, toad, toadeater, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, yes-man
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