"lick-platter" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: lick-platters [plural]
Etymology: From lick + platter. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|lick|platter}} lick + platter Head templates: {{en-noun}} lick-platter (plural lick-platters)
  1. (obsolete) A sycophant. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): People Synonyms: lick-dish, lick-plate, lick-trencher, sycophant

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.",
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