Lickspittle vs Cad - What's the difference?
lickspittle | cad |
A fawning toady; a base sycophant.
* 1857 , , The Professor , ch. 5:
* 1920 , , Poor White , ch. 21:
* 2013 May 23, "
(by extension) The practice of giving empty flattery for personal gain.
(transitive, and, intransitive) To play the toady; take the rôle of a lickspittle to please (someone).
* 1886 , (author), The Light Shines in Darkness , act 1:
As a noun lickspittle
is a fawning toady; a base sycophant.As a verb lickspittle
is (transitive|and|intransitive) to play the toady; take the rôle of a lickspittle to please (someone).As a proper noun cad is
chad (country in central africa).lickspittle
English
Alternative forms
* lick-spittleNoun
(en noun)- "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.
Note to politicians: Stop blaming the media for your problems (Editorial)," Globe and Mail (Canada) (retrieved 23 May 2013):
- 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 .”
Synonyms
* (fawning toady) brown noser, flatterer, sycophant, toadyDerived terms
* lickspittling (verbal noun)Verb
- "[Y]ou take his side, and that is wrong! . . . If some young school teacher, or some young lad, lickspittles to him, it's bad enough."