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Cirque du So-What

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6. It's a thing, and it's been around awhile. A long while.
Sun Nov 10, 2019, 02:40 PM
Nov 2019

lickspittle (n.)

also lick-spittle, "sycophant, abject toady, one who will do any repulsive thing," 1741, from lick (v.1) + spittle. Phrase lick the spittle as a repulsive act is from 1640s.

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