ABSP - Sneaks

Sneaks

backscratch	to do favours in the hope of return favours; to act obsequiously.
backscratcher	one who backscratches.
bootlick	to toady.
bootlicker	a toady.
brownnose	(vulg.) to act sycophantically.
brownnoser	a sycophant.
bumsucker	(vulg.) a toady.
bumsucking	sycophancy.
carrytale	a sneak, a TALEBEARER.
claque	a group of sycophants, hired to applaud.
clawback	a flatterer or sycophant.
clipe clype	to tell tales.
cocksucker	(vulg.) a contemptible person who attempts to ingratiate himself with his superiors.
crawler	a toady, a sycophant.
creep	a toady, a sycophant.
dob	to inform on or betray > DOBS, DOBBING, DOBBED.
dobber	one who DOBS, an informer.
fawner	one who fawns.
fink	a strike-breaker; an informer; (verb) to inform on.
flatter	to praise fulsomely.
flatterer	one who flatters.
flatterous	flattering > FLATTEROUSLY.
flattery	the act of flattering.
flunkey flunkie flunky	a liveried servant; (fig.) a servile person.
flunkeydom	the state of being a FLUNKEY.
flunkeyism	the state of being a FLUNKEY.
flunkeyish	like a FLUNKEY.
gnathonic	obsequious, toadying, parasitical, flattering and deceitful. [L. gnathonicus, derivative of Gnathon- (stem of Gnatho) name of a sycophantic character in the Roman comedy Eunuchus by Terence.]
grass	an informant; (verb) to inform on.
grasser	a grass, an informer.
grovel	to act obsequiously > GROVELS, GROVELING or GROVELLING, GROVELED or GROVELLED.
groveler groveller	one who grovels.
informant informer	one who informs, tells tales.
kotower kowtower	one who KOWTOWS, acts obsequiously > the KOTOW or KOWTOW itself is an old Chinese ceremony of touching the forehead to the ground as a gesture of deference.
lickspit lickspittle	a fawning subordinate, a toady.
moiser	(Yiddish) an informer.
mouchard	(French) a police spy.
myrmidon	an unquestioningly loyal follower > MYRMIDONS or MYRMIDONES.
nark	a police informer; (verb) to inform on, to annoy. [Romany nak, nose].
obsequious	servilely ingratiating; fawning > OBSEQUIOUSLY.
palaverer	one who palavers; a flatterer.
peach	to sneak, to tell tales.
peacher	one who PEACHES.
pickthank	someone who seeks to ingratiate himself or herself by officious favours, or by talebearing
pleaseman	an officious person who courts favor servilely > PLEASEMEN.
proneur	(French) a flatterer.
rat	to inform, tell tales.
ratting	the act of informing against > RATTINGS.
satellite	formerly, an obsequious follower or attendant.
servile	slavish, fawning > SERVILELY; (noun) a servile person > SERVILES.
smarmy	revealing or marked by a smug, ingratiating, or false earnestness > SMARMIER, SMARMIEST; SMARMILY.
sneak	one who tells tales; (verb) to inform, tell tales.
sneakeup	a SNEAK.
sneakish	like a sneak > SNEAKISHLY.
sneakishness	the state of being SNEAKISH.
sneaksby	a paltry fellow; a sneak.
sneaky	crafty > SNEAKIER, SNEAKIEST; SNEAKILY.
snitch	the nose; (verb) to inform on.
snitcher	one who SNITCHES, informs.
squeaker	something that squeaks; a young bird; an informer.
squealer	an informer.
stoolie	a stool-pigeon, a police informer.
suckhole	a sycophant, a toady.
supergrass	a very important police informer.
sycophant	one who attempts to gain a personal advantage by servile flattery > SYCOPHANTLY.
talebearer	one who tells tales, a sneak.
talebearing	the act of bearing tales.
tattle	to gossip, tell secrets.
tattletale	a tell-tale; (verb) to tell tales.
telltale	a sneak, a talebearer.
timeserver	a person who cynically or servilely suits his or her opinions to the times or those in authority for the time.
timeserving	the action of a TIMESERVER. N.B. no verb TIMESERVE*.
tintookie	a fawning or servile person. [From Tintookies, marionettes that appeared on Australian televison in the 1960s].
toadeater	a fawning, obsequious parasite.
toady	a sycophant; (verb) to act sycophantically.
toadyish	like a TOADY.
toadyism	the practice of toadying.
truckle	to act subserviently, yield to the will of another.
truckler	one who truckles.
yeasayer	a person who (habitually) agrees or assents.
zany	now means a clownish or eccentric person, but used to mean a toady.

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