Bootlicker

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  bootlicker \bootlicker\ n.
     someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves
     as he had no self-respect.
  
     Syn: apple polisher, bootlick, fawner, groveller, truckler,
          ass-kisser, toady.


          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bootlicker
       n : someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who
           behaves as if he had no self-respect [syn: {apple
           polisher}, {fawner}, {groveller}, {groveler}, {truckler},
            {ass-kisser}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "bootlicker":
     apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlick,
     brown-nose, brownie, clawback, courtier, creature, cringer, dupe,
     fawner, flatterer, flunky, footlicker, groveler, handshaker, helot,
     instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lickspit,
     lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, peon, puppet, serf, slave,
     spaniel, stooge, suck, sycophant, timeserver, toad, toadeater,
     toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, yes-man