LekhoriLekhoriA fawning toady; a base sycophant.
"I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle!"
The practice of giving empty flattery for personal gain.
To play the toady; take the role of a lickspittle to please (someone).
"[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."
A compounding: lick (“pass one’s tongue over”) + spittle (“saliva”); the verb may derive by back-formation from the nominal derivation lickspittling (see below).
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