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nuoleskelija A fawning toady; a base sycophant.
1857, w:Charlotte Brontë|Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, ch. 5:

"I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle!"
1920, w:Sherwood Anderson|Sherwood Anderson, Poor White, ch. 21:
"You're a suck, a suck and a lickspittle, that's what you are," said the pale man, his voice trembling with passion.
2013 May 23, "http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/editorials/globe-editorial-note-to-politicians-stop-blaming-the-media-for-your-problems/article12090036/ Note to politicians: Stop blaming the media for your problems (Editorial)," Globe and Mail (Canada) (retrieved 23 May 2013):
In Ottawa, Senator Marjory LeBreton claimed in a speech on Wednesday that allegations of spending abuses by her colleagues were “hyped-up media stories” that were inevitable in a “town populated by Liberal elites and their media lickspittles.”
puhekieltä The practice of giving empty flattery for personal gain.
puhekieltä To play the toady; take the role rôle of a lickspittle to please (someone).
1886, w:Aylmer and Louise Maude|Aylmer and Louise Maude (translators), w:Leo Tolstoy|Leo Tolstoy (author), The Light Shines in Darkness, act 1:
"You take his side, and that is wrong! . . . If some young school teacher, or some young lad, lickspittles to him, it's bad enough."

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