What is "bootlick"

Usage examples of "bootlick".

To Drake, these particular men had been demons from Hell even before London had caught fire, because they were the personal bootlicks of King Charles II, an arch-daemon of King Louis XIV himself.

What bootlicking courtier was responsible for naming New York after him?

I assume you arranged it that way in order to buttress your position as the King’s token Puritan bootlick—whilst in fact stirring rebellious spirits in the hearts and minds of the rich and powerful.

Next time General Rodgers is in a funk or Martha goes into one of her bootlick rants, just slip 'em in and pretend to listen.

Certainly a lot of these bootlick the SS and brutalize other prisoners to save their own skins.

Turner grimaced"Sometimes I think we spend more time spying on each other than on the oppositionThe more the machines take over, the more time we have to bootlick and backstab over promotionsThere's noth-ing some of my fellow vice-presidents would like better than to steal my ideas or have advance information so they could do a little shotgunning at the planning ses-sionsI didn't get where I am today by trusting peo-ple.

The wazir was a vacillating bootlick named al-Mazdaghani, who sided with the Batini - the Fida'in by another name.

Saeed and Mehdi were, like himself, Saudi in origin, like himself children of wealthy families who'd come to despise their parents for their habit of bootlicking Americans and others like them.

Even though they were of the same caste, both Professionals, his lawyer insisted on bootlicking.

But no one will ever compute the still-born genius of those who perish under systems of thaf kind, unwilling to learn the art of bootlicking required by any political patron of the arts.

And that’s why we’re out here now—an object lesson for all those bootlicking shills and hustlers.