Perhaps [Secretary of Energy Bill] Richardson himself deserves some of the blame for his oL Too eager to please, he constantly agrees to run fool’s errands for his boss [President Clinton]. A cynic might even call him a lickspittle. (Franklin Foer, Bill Richardson, Masochist, The New Republic, 07/3/2000.)
This word can also be a synonym for toady, yes man, bootlicker, brown-noser, fawner or flatterer.
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