bootlicker

English

Alternative forms

• boot licker
• boot-licker

Etymology

boot +‎ licker

Noun

bootlicker (plural bootlickers)

1. (derogatory) A person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner; a toady
2. (by extension, derogatory) Anyone who is seen as supporting authoritarianism.

Synonyms

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Related terms

• bootlick

Translations

person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: քծնող (kʻcnoġ), շողոքորթ (hy) (šoġokʻortʻ), պնակալեզ (hy) (pnakalez)
• Azerbaijani: yaltaq (az)
• Bengali: খয়ের খাঁ (bn) (khoẏer khã), চামচা (bn) (camca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拍馬屁者／拍马屁者 (pāimǎpì zhě), 奴才 (zh) (núcái)

• Czech: patolízal (cs) m, patolízalka f
• Finnish: saappaannuolija
• French: lèche-bottes (fr) m or f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Speichellecker (de) m, Speichelleckerin (de) f
• Greek: γλύφτης m (glýftis)
• Hindi: चमचा (hi) m (camcā)
• Hungarian: talpnyaló (hu)
• Italian: ruffiano (it) m, leccapiedi (it)
• Kazakh: жарбақ (jarbaq)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 아첨꾼 (acheomkkun)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: padlaižys m, batlaižys m, pataikūnas m
• Malay: penjilat
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spyttslikker (no) m

  Nynorsk: spyttslikkar m

• Polish: lizus (pl) m, wazeliniarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: puxa-saco (pt) m or f
• Russian: подхали́м (ru) m (podxalím), подхали́мка (ru) f (podxalímka), льстец (ru) m (lʹstec), лизоблю́д (ru) m (lizobljúd), лизоблю́дка (ru) f (lizobljúdka)
• Slovak: pätolizač m, pätolizačka f
• Spanish: zalamero (es) m, zalamera (es) f, lamebotas (es) m or f, lameculos (es) m or f (vulgar), lamehuevos m or f, chupamedias (es) m or f (River Plate), arrastrado (es) m (Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Venezuela)
• Swedish: rövslickare (sv) c, smilfink c
• Turkish: dalkavuk (tr), yaltakçı (tr), çanak yalayan, göt yalayan
• Vietnamese: nịnh (tr), tiểu nhân (tr)

See also

• wannabe