What does lick-trencher mean?
Lick-trencher means (obsolete) A sycophant.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete) A sycophant.
Why Peniculus worship, that whorson lick-trencher, your Parasiticall attendant.
The earliest known picture of William Hogarth is one called the Wanstead Assembly, long, and by a ridiculous blunder, corrupted into "Wandsworth." The term "Assembly" was a little bit of art-slang. A portrait being a portrait, and a "conversation" a group of persons generally belonging to one family; by an "assembly" was understood a kind of pictorial rent-roll, or domestic "achievement," representing the lord, or the squire, the ladies and children, the secretaries, chaplains, pensioned poets, led-captains, body-flatterers, hangers-on, needy clients, lick-trenchers, and scrape-plates, the governesses and tutors, the tenants, the lacqueys, the black-boys, the monkeys, and the lapdogs: tutta la baracca, in fact.
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Lick-trencher means (obsolete) A sycophant.
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Why Peniculus worship, that whorson lick-trencher, your Parasiticall attendant.
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