bootlicker

[ boot-lik-er ]
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noun
  1. someone who seeks favor or goodwill in a servile, degraded way; toady: He comes across as a facile bootlicker, someone who would do anything like a lapdog to please somebody in the chain of command.

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How to use bootlicker in a sentence

  • Henry, live it like a gentleman and not like an understrapper and bootlicker!

    In the Heart of a Fool | William Allen White
  • You have turned master, haven't you—bootlicker ordering me to stand watch!

    The Cruise of the Dry Dock | T. S. Stribling