bootlicker

[ boot-lik-er ]

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bootlicker¹

boot ¹( def ) + lick ( def ) + -er ¹( def )

Example Sentences

Now he brings an increasingly obnoxious entourage of bootlickers with him every day.

From Salon

Anyone who echoes Trump's denials sounds either terminally delusional or like a mortifying bootlicker.

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The most disturbing thing remains Trump’s enablers—the incense-burners, the bootlickers, the pursuivants who can ensure that his tyrannical ambitions are realized.

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Mind you, the former leadership of the RNC was already a bunch of Trump bootlickers.

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How many voters prefer the bootlicker to the guy wearing the boots?

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