What's the difference between footlicker and licker?
Footlicker
Definition:
(n.) A sycophant; a fawner; a toady. Cf. Bootlick.
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Licker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, licks.
Example Sentences:
(1) After being widely condemned for his remarks about the rape allegations facing Julian Assange, George Galloway was under fire again at the weekend after calling someone a "window-licker" (a derogatory term for a disabled person) in a conversation on Twitter .
(2) As he stresses every week at the beginning of The Apprentice: "I don't like liars, I don't like cheats, I don't like bullshitters, I don't like schmoozers and I don't like arse-lickers."
(3) Paul Carter (@Juniorc0) wrote: "@georgegalloway just called someone a window licker.
(4) Galloway did apologise for using the word "window-licker" about a critic on Twitter, claiming that he was unaware that it had become a term of abuse of the disabled since he left Scotland , where it had previously been a synonym for "moron".
(5) I was listening to them all thinking: ‘You arse lickers.
(6) Will decent Rangers fans please substitute this windae-licker … " The tweet was attacked as insensitive by fellow Twitter users and @Skipjack451 wrote: "I wonder what the disabled members of your constituency will make of your use of the slur 'window licker'?