lick-platter

English

Etymology

From lick +‎ platter.

Noun

lick-platter (plural lick-platters)

1. (obsolete) A sycophant.

   Synonyms: lick-dish, lick-plate, lick-trencher; see also Thesaurus:sycophant

   • 1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XXIII, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book sixth, page 186:

     And as for freedom from malignant personalities, he might have been a model to all critics. I must except politics, however, for in these he could be rabid and savage. He had a passion for independence, which, though pushed to excess, was not without grandeur. No lick-platter, no parasite, no toadeater, no literary beggar, no hunter after patronage and subscriptions; even in his dealings with Audley Egerton, he insisted on naming the price for his labours.