English
Etymology
From boot + licker.
Pronunciation
Noun
bootlicker (plural bootlickers)
- (derogatory) A person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner; a toady.
- (by extension, derogatory) Anyone who is seen as supporting authoritarianism.
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Derived terms
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, Stiefellecker (de) m
- 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 (Mexico), chupamedia(s) m or f (River Plate), arrastrado (es) m (Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Venezuela), lambeculo(s) m or f, lambechorcha m or f (El Salvador), huelepedos m or f (Mesoamerica)
- Swedish: rövslickare (sv) c, smilfink c
- Thai: ผู้สอพลอ (th) (pûu-sɔ̌ɔ-plɔɔ)
- Turkish: dalkavuk (tr), yaltakçı (tr), çanak yalayan, göt yalayan
- Vietnamese: nịnh, tiểu nhân
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