Lickpot
noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The forefinger. archaic, childish
"Coordinate term: thumbkin"
- 2 An untrustworthy sycophant.
". And the message that came was by the mouth of a kind of jackal or lickpot of John Dick's — who, for reasons of his own, hated me, chiefly because I took no share in the foulness of him and his subservient crew."
Example
More examples"Fife-men and pipers braw, Merry deils, tak them a', Gown, lace, and livery — lickpot and ladle ; Jockey shall wear the hood, Jenny the sark of God — For codpiece and petticoat, dishclout and daidle."
Etymology
From Middle English likpot; equivalent to lick + pot. Possibly from the act of using a finger to clean a pot after eating.
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