Lick-spittle. A slimy grovelling and devious person who will do anything to get ahead in their life and career including accepting an order from the boss to lick a big green greasy lump of spit in the hope of promotion or a pat on the head.
I hate that bastard , always crawling up the bosses arse - he's a real lick spittle
Adj. use of "lickspittle". Somewhere between being merely obsequious and being another's bitch-boy for the purpose of some present or future payoff for oneself.
Rather than becoming despondent upon learning how Congress truly worked, young Thornquist vowed to himself that he would take action at every opportunity to expose the corrupting influence of corporate greed on the democratic process, undaunted for now by their armies of lobbyists, lawyers and lickspittling lackeys.
Used in conversation as meaning to be insignificant, unimportant or irrelevant dickspittle the word actually refers to the urine that remains in the forskin of an uncircumcised man's penis when he goes to the washroom.
The word can be used as an insult (to be called unimportant), to reject a proposal (similar to saying, "hell no") or as a description of an object or situation.
Words that can be used similarly include flyspeck, pissass and dirtbag based on the situation.
Example One:
Man One: Why don't we go out and get some drinks, forget all life's worries?
Man Two: Dickspittle! I am not in the mood to waste my life away.
Example Two:
Woman One: Oh, let's go out into the country, it would be ever so much fun!
Woman Two: No, I won't be going of to some dickspittle farm in the middle of nowhere.
a word used by Mr Burns toward Smithers in the Simpsons,a subordinate with little credibility if any,a puppet on a string
Monty Burns; Youre nothing more than my lick-spittle Smithers,youre word is worthless you lickspittle,watch me make this lick-spittle dance like a puppet
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brownwill also be accompanied by a dark soda.