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lickspit

[lik-spit-l]

lick·spit·tle

[lik-spit-l]
noun
a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady.
Also, lick·spit.


Origin:
1620–30; lick + spittle
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Lickspit is always a great word to know.
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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