footlicker

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noun

A sycophant; a fawner; a toady

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Meanings

nounfootlicker (plural footlickers)

plural footlickers

  1. A sycophant; a fawner; a toady

    […]Do that good miſcheefe, which may make this Iſland / Thine owne for euer, and I thy Caliban, / For aye thy foot-licker.

    1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]
  2. Someone who licks another's feet.

Origin

From foot + licker.

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APA

footlicker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/footlicker

MLA

“footlicker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/footlicker. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “footlicker,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/footlicker.

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