Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a sycophant; as kiss-my-arse man in 1960s.

c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Kiss mine Arse fellow, a Sicophant.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn) n.p.: A kiss mine a-se fellow; a sycophant.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1788].
1821		‘A Real Paddy’ Real Life in Ireland 79: One of the many kiss-my-toe fellows.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue [as cit. 1788].
1968		P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I i: All the envoys, and secretaries and kiss-me-arse men waited outside.