bootlicking
English edit
Verb edit
bootlicking
- present participle and gerund of bootlick
Noun edit
bootlicking (countable and uncountable, plural bootlickings)
- servile behaviour
- 1951, The Library Assistant, volumes 44-45, page xiii:
- The most obvious — for a junior struggling to lift himself from the mire by his bootlickings — is to go to his Chief and say — frankly — "Out! I need the experience and you need a rest. Clear off for a month or two. I'll cope."