greasehorn

plural greasehorns

1. historicalA horn filled with grease for use as lubricant.
2. UKderogatorydialectalobsoleteA flatterer.

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   "Confound your insolence! What have you been about?" "Your work, and have done it well." "Hypocrite and twaddler! Smooth-faced, snivelling greasehorn!" (this last term is, I believe, purely ———shire, and alludes to the horn of black rancid whale-oil, usually to be seen suspended to cart-wheels, and employed for greasing the same.)

   1857, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor