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bootlick

[boot-lik] / ˈbutˌlɪk /
VERB
flatter
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Turned down for that fellow Prescott—-that shifty dodger and cheap bootlick!

From Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point Standing Firm for Flag and Honor by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

"Bootlick, bootlick," I heard in murmurs all over the hall.

From The Harbor by Ernest Poole

"I don't stand for a bootlick," replied Cadet Stubbs.

From Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Or a manufacturer and having to bootlick the buyers?

From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

At Yale, and other colleges, a tutor or any other officer who informs against the students, or acts as a spy upon their conduct, is also called a bootlick.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall


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