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Lickpot

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The forefinger. archaic, childish

    "Coordinate term: thumbkin"

  2. 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."

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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