lèche-cul — meaning in English
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English meaning
- sycophant noun Someone who flatters a powerful person constantly in order to gain favour from them.
Senses
lèche-cul is used for these senses in English:
- ass-licker (US, vulgar, slang) Someone who succumbs to authority, doing whatever authority figures ask and attempting to please them in every possible way; (by extension) any contemptible person.
- brownnose (figurative) One who sucks up; a bootlicker, ass-kisser, sycophant.
- lickspittle (transitive, and, intransitive) To play the toady; take the role of a lickspittle to please (someone).
- sycophant One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.