Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To behave like a sycophant toward (someone) or behave like a sycophant. synonym: fawn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mean, cringing person; a toady.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Low, U. S. A toady; a bootlicker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To seek favor from by
fawning , servile behavior. - verb intransitive To engage in fawning, servile behavior.
- noun US A
toady orsycophant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Etymologies
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Examples
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March 20th, 2010 at 6: 54 pm tombaker says: boner knows who butters his bottom. and barney knows how to make him look like the pansy punkass bootlick he really is. suck it, righties.
Think Progress » Rep. Barney Frank distributes ‘Little Punk Staffer’ buttons to Capitol Hill aides. 2010
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No doubt trying for an audience with Gabriel Androctusa chance to grovel and bootlick his way into squirehood.
Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010
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Isn't it amazing what people will swear to, promise, pander and bootlick in order to make it through the primaries?
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I suspect Broder is more of a Jeff Sessions kind of guy, a Bushie bootlick – but that un-ordinary man, Warner appears to have sharp disagreements with Bush – and ditto for Hagel too.
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You bootlick major warcriminals, and call it ‘history.’
Think Progress » Murtha is Right: Reagan’s Redeployment Made America Stronger 2006
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Scowcroft is a criminal bootlick holdover from the Reagan Bush years.
Think Progress » Key Baker Ally Says ‘We Have To Stay’ In Iraq 2006
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And you've got to play politics, bootlick your boss -- all that.
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Or a manufacturer and having to bootlick the buyers?
Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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He didn't know he was just an amateur bootlick among don't you go and enjoy that free speech too much now, ya hear. ahmedinejad will jail your butt in a heartbeat, then beat the living snot out of you for fun.
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He didn't know he was just an amateur bootlick among don't you go and enjoy that free speech too much now, ya hear. ahmedinejad will jail your butt in a heartbeat, then beat the living snot out of you for fun.
amacleod03 commented on the word bootlick
To gain favor by flattery, fawning, or obsequious behavior.
Dogs are notoriously obsequious, as is repeatedly stated throughout these entries. They are constantly seeking favor and social recognition. Dogs are also notorious lickers, and often known for licking less than luscious items, so we are not much surprised to find boots among them. Boot licking as a description seems to have fallen out of favor: perhaps this is because the licking of boots is increasingly associated with foot fetishes and bondage and discipline fantasies.
July 11, 2009