[prajop] (v) EN: curry favour with (s.o.) ; fawn on ; by sycophantic ; play the toady ; ingratiate oneself with ; make up to FR: chercher à gagner les faveurs (de qqn.) ; faire la fête à qqn. ; flatter (servilement) ; lécher les bottes (fam.) ; être obséquieux ; flagorner (litt.) ; se faire bien voir de qqn. ; passer de la pommade à qqn. (fam.)
n. [ L. sycophanta a slanderer, deceiver, parasite, Gr. &unr_; a false accuser, false adviser, literally, a fig shower; &unr_; a fig + &unr_; to show: cf. F. sycophante. The reason for the name is not certainly known. See Phenomenon. ] 1. An informer; a talebearer. [ Obs. ] “Accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature.” Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men. [ 1913 Webster ]
A sycophant will everything admire: Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
{ } a. [ Cf. Gr. &unr_; slanderous. ] Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. [ 1913 Webster ]
To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
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