lickpot

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lickpot

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From Middle English likpot; equivalent to lick + pot, presumably from the act of using a finger to clean a pot after eating.

noun lickpots

archaic, childish The forefinger. Coordinate term: thumbkin
Similar: arrow-finger, demonstrator, first finger, forefinger, index, index finger, lickpot, pointer, pointer finger, pointling, showing finger, teacher
An untrustworthy sycophant. . And the message that came was by the mouth of a kind of jackal or lickpot of John Dick's — who, for reasons of his own, hated me, chiefly because I took no share in the foulness of him and his subservient crew.
Similar: lickspittle, sycophant, toady, adulator, apple polisher, arse-kisser, arse-licker, ass-kisser, ass-licker, bootlick, bootlicker, buttkisser

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@misc{lickpot_2026,
  title = {lickpot},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lickpot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}