footlicker

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From foot +‎ licker.

Noun[edit]

footlicker (plural footlickers)

  1. A sycophant; a fawner; a toady[1]
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
      […] Do that good miſcheefe, which may make this Iſland / Thine owne for euer, and I thy Caliban, / For aye thy foot-licker.
  2. Someone who licks another's feet.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ “footlicker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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