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Definition of Lickspittles
1. lickspittle [n] - See also: lickspittle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lickspittles
Literary usage of Lickspittles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"... averring that they were a parcel of sneaks, a set of lickspittles, and using
epithets still more vulgar, Clive slipped off his fine silk-sleeved coat in ..."
2. The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it by Hinton Rowan Helper (1860)
"Now let us see how 'slavery has rewarded the poor, ignorant, deluded, and degraded
mortals—swaggering lickspittles—who have labored so hard to gain for it ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"To any one of whom, by half that submissiveness and assiduity, our Bozzy might
have recommended himself; and sat there, the envy of surrounding lickspittles ..."
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