Groupie vs Sycophant - What's the difference?
groupie | sycophant |
A young female fan of a rock group; a person who seeks intimacy (most often physical, sometimes emotional) with a famous person, usually a rock band member.
* 1999 , Lauraine Leblanc, Pretty in Punk: Girl?s Gender Resistance in a Boy?s Subculture , 2002,
* 2000 October, The 100 Sleaziest Moments in Rock'', '' ,
* 2012', Ginger Voight, '''''Groupie ,
One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
* Dryden
One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
(obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
* Milton
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
As nouns the difference between groupie and sycophant
is that groupie is a young female fan of a rock group; a person who seeks intimacy (most often physical, sometimes emotional) with a famous person, usually a rock band member while sycophant is one who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.As a verb sycophant is
to inform against; hence, to calumniate.groupie
English
(wikipedia groupie)Noun
(en noun)page 47,
- In mainstream rock youth culture, female fans had only submissive roles in the consumption of rock music: they could be teenyboppers, and when they grew older, groupies', with the ' groupie role providing a real-life extension of the sexualized hero worship of the teenybopper.
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- Although Pamela Des Barres, rock?s most famous groupie', was passed around like a loose joint at a be-in, she maintains today, “There was no hierarchy. The ' groupies were not considered less than the musicians. We were muses.”
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- The groupie experience from what I?ve seen is quite similar to the experiences I?ve had as the “fat girl,” who had the good looking guy give her attention behind closed doors but never had the opportunity to be the gal on his arm, and it is that emotional integrity I brought to the book.
Synonyms
* (fan who seeks intimacy) band aid, band chick, band moll, band rat, snuff queen, starfuckerAnagrams
*sycophant
English
Noun
(en noun)- A sycophant will everything admire: / Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire.
- Accusing sycophants , of all men, did best sort to his nature.
Synonyms
* (one who uses compliments to gain favor) ass-kisser, brown noser, suck up, yes man * (one who seeks to gain through the powerful) parasite, flunky, lackey * See alsoQuotations
{{timeline, 1700s=1775 1787, 1800s=1841 1863, 1900s=1927}} * 1775 — , No. 3 *: This language, “the imperial crown of Great Britain,” is not the style of the common law, but of court sycophants . * 1787 — *: They know from experience that they sometimes err; and the wonder is that they so seldom err as they do, beset, as they continually are, by the wiles of parasites and sycophants , by the snares of the ambitious, the avaricious, the desperate, by the artifices of men who possess their confidence more than they deserve it, and of those who seek to possess rather than to deserve it. * 1841 — , Ch. 43 *: this man, who has crawled and crept through life, wounding the hands he licked, and biting those he fawned upon: this sycophant , who never knew what honour, truth, or courage meant... * 1863 — , Book IX Ch. XI *: It is only because military men are invested with pomp and power and crowds of sychophants flatter power, attributing to it qualities of genius it does not possess. * 1927–29' — *: Princes were always at the mercy of others and ready to lend their ears to sycophants .Derived terms
(terms derived from sycophant) * sycophancy * sycophantic * sycophantish * sycophantismVerb
(en verb)- Sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary.
