"pickthank" meaning in English

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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1628, John Earle, Micro-cosmographie, or, A Piece of the World Discovered; in Essayes and Characters, Characters, 40. A rash man,\nHe is a man still swayed with the first reports, and no man more in the power of a pickthank then he."
        },
        {
          "text": "1755, Eliza Haywood (under the pseudonym Exploralibus), The Invisible Spy, London: T. Garner, Volume 1, Chapter 7, p. 256,\nWhy then, sir, your friend is no better than a pickthank for bringing you such idle stories; and I am not afraid to tell him so to his face."
        },
        {
          "text": "1868, F. H. Doyle, Lectures Delivered before the University of Oxford, London: Macmillan, Lecture 2, pp. 49-50,\nSome pickthank contrived to let the little great man know what had taken place, and he, so she informed me, was ungenerous enough to wreak a mean revenge."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A sycophant; one who meddles, tattles, informs (often in order to curry favour)."
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          "sycophant",
          "sycophant"
        ],
        [
          "meddle",
          "meddle"
        ],
        [
          "tattle",
          "tattle"
        ],
        [
          "inform",
          "inform"
        ],
        [
          "curry favour",
          "curry favour"
        ]
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "podlizurko",
          "sense": "sycophant",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "подлизурко"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "sycophant",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Jasager"
        }
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  "word": "pickthank"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1599, Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, act I, scene 1",
          "text": "This Dodger is mine uncle’s parasite,\nThe arrant’st varlet that e’er breathed on earth;\nHe sets more discord in a noble house\nBy one day’s broaching of his pickthank tales,\nThan can be salved again in twenty years […]",
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        "Of or relating to pickthanks."
      ],
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pick-thank"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "pickthank"
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      "form": "pickthanks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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          "text": "1628, John Earle, Micro-cosmographie, or, A Piece of the World Discovered; in Essayes and Characters, Characters, 40. A rash man,\nHe is a man still swayed with the first reports, and no man more in the power of a pickthank then he."
        },
        {
          "text": "1755, Eliza Haywood (under the pseudonym Exploralibus), The Invisible Spy, London: T. Garner, Volume 1, Chapter 7, p. 256,\nWhy then, sir, your friend is no better than a pickthank for bringing you such idle stories; and I am not afraid to tell him so to his face."
        },
        {
          "text": "1868, F. H. Doyle, Lectures Delivered before the University of Oxford, London: Macmillan, Lecture 2, pp. 49-50,\nSome pickthank contrived to let the little great man know what had taken place, and he, so she informed me, was ungenerous enough to wreak a mean revenge."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sycophant; one who meddles, tattles, informs (often in order to curry favour)."
      ],
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        [
          "sycophant",
          "sycophant"
        ],
        [
          "meddle",
          "meddle"
        ],
        [
          "tattle",
          "tattle"
        ],
        [
          "inform",
          "inform"
        ],
        [
          "curry favour",
          "curry favour"
        ]
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "podlizurko",
      "sense": "sycophant",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "подлизурко"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sycophant",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Jasager"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pickthank"
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1599, Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, act I, scene 1",
          "text": "This Dodger is mine uncle’s parasite,\nThe arrant’st varlet that e’er breathed on earth;\nHe sets more discord in a noble house\nBy one day’s broaching of his pickthank tales,\nThan can be salved again in twenty years […]",
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        "Of or relating to pickthanks."
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        "not-comparable"
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    {
      "word": "pick-thank"
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  "word": "pickthank"
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