arslikhan

English

Etymology

Alteration of arse-licking. Coined by Private Eye.

Noun

arslikhan (uncountable)

1. (UK, slang) Overt flattery, especially in print.
   • 1981, Private Eye:

     The constituency's large Jewish population is in open revolt over the Foreign Secretary's Arafat arslikhan.

   • 1996, Francis Wheen, Lord Gnome's Literary Companion, Verso, →ISBN, page 226:

     As this passage suggests, Masters is a graduate of the Arslikhan school of biography.

   • 2012, David Croydon, The Unprincipled, Hilltop Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:

     We'll have a couple of after-dinner speeches – I'll say a few words, interspersing a couple of jokes with a vote of arslikhan thanks for their business, and then introduce our guest speaker.