Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| backscratch | to do favours in the hope of return favours; to act obsequiously. |
| backscratcher | one who backscratches. |
| bootlick | to toady. |
| bootlicker | a toady. |
| browner | a sycophantic person. |
| 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. |
| 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; (verb) to act sycophantically > SUCKHOLED, SUCKHOLING. |
| 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. |