lick-platter

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lick-platter

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From lick + platter.

noun lick-platters

obsolete A sycophant. And as for freedom from malignant personalities, he might have been a model to all critics. I must except politics, however, for in these he could be rabid and savage. He had a passion for independence, which, though pushed to excess, was not without grandeur. No lick-platter, no parasite, no toadea
Similar: lick-dish, lick-plate, lick-trencher, adulator, apple polisher, arse-kisser, arse-licker, ass-kisser, ass-licker, bootlick, bootlicker, buttkisser

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@misc{lick_platter_2026,
  title = {lick-platter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lick-platter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}