What is "bootlicker"

Usage examples of "bootlicker".

I like to keep all these petty bootlickers frightened and off balance, since it makes it easier to control them.

He thinks I’m stupid and cowardly and lazy, except when I lick his boots, and then he only thinks I’m a natural-born bootlicker.

Shaking his fist at the gardener, the attacker shouted, "The Resolute won't forget this, bootlicker.

Minor family, major nuisance, but also a born bootlicker, and those could be useful.

I raised a formal Question in Council—the second meeting, that is, not the first—but Hobart claimed I was just trying to embarrass him, use it as an excuse for family rivalry, and one of his bootlickers got up and spouted a whole involved line about genetic susceptibility and the inbred genome of Fleet families.

I myself am what the tsar's parasites and bootlickers call a Nigilist, and only in the circus can one express such sentiments without being arrested and imprisoned for it.

In the eyes of his tortured victims, of the beggars in the streets of his kingdom, of the bootlickers at his court, of the foreign tribes and their rulers beyond the borders.

I raised a formal Question in Council—the second meeting, that is, not the first—but Hobart claimed I was just trying to embarrass him, use it as an excuse for family rivalry, and one of his bootlickers got up and spouted a whole involved line about genetic susceptibility and the inbred genome of Fleet families.

Or, perhaps, he was simply the perfect toadie, and like all good bootlickers, he was following the power.

Back on Serendipity Jeshel had said "Revolt" and "The Cause" and "The-rotten-management, with all its bootlickers.

I bin an independent contractor for longer than mosta those bootlickers been alive.