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English
Etymology
From foot + licker.
Noun
footlicker (plural footlickers)
- A sycophant; a fawner; a toady[1]
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] Do that good miſcheefe, which may make this Iſland / Thine owne for euer, and I thy Caliban, / For aye thy foot-licker.
- Someone who licks another's feet.
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