arse-lick v.
to toady, to be sycophantic.
![]() | House of Fury (1959) 118: Ain’t goin’ round lickin’ no white ass if I kin ever kick it. | |
![]() | CUSS 72: Ass lick Curry favor with a professor. | et al.|
![]() | Bandiet 126: Those were the days [...] when you knew where you were in the boop, when you didn’t have to betray all your friends to get to B group and arse-lick your way to A group. | |
![]() | Drylongso 91: The first thing them black people from over there try to do [...] is to see how much white ass he can lick! | |
![]() | Trainspotting 307: Donnelly, the Saughton Kid, a radge whae Mikey Forrester used tae arselick. | |
![]() | Black Tide (2012) [ebook] The bastard’s last chance is to arselick the boys at the cemetery. |
In derivatives
1. a toady, a sycophant.
![]() | What’s In It For Me? 127: I’d seen ass-lickers before, but my God! | |
![]() | Till Death Us Do Part 97: You’re a right old licker you are. [...] Bowing and scraping here just because he’s a Lord. | |
![]() | Coll. Poems (1988) 179: City we shared without knowing [...] Till we left, and were glad to be going / (Unlike the arselicker who stays). | ‘Poem About Oxford’ in|
![]() | Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 109: He’s surrounded by so many arse-lickers. | |
![]() | Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 Good doses of unemployment and starvation wages will make us a nation of arse-lickers. | |
![]() | Guardian 26 Feb. 13: My time of being an arse-licker for famous ‘tops’ is over. | |
![]() | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 8/1: arse licker n. 1 (also bumlicker) an inmate who ingratiates himself with prison officials in order to get through his sentence easily. | |
![]() | Truth 98: Bob Villani's Army life, had he taken orders from dickheads and arselickers like this man? |
2. a person who licks another’s anus for sexual pleasure.
![]() | Outside In Act II: sandy: ARSELICKER! DOG! CUNT! kate: PIG FUCKER!!! | |
![]() | Pay for Play Cheerleaders 🌐 Mr. Towson clutched and pinched Chrissie’s ass, and his tongue danced with a furious frenzy on her bugger hole. ‘Ass-licker!’ Chris shouted. ‘Dirty ass-licker!’. |
3. (N.Z. prison) an informer.
![]() | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 8/1: arse licker 2. an informer. |
4. (N.Z. prison) a general term of abuse; esp. a gullible invidiual, a ‘sucker’.
![]() | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 8/1: arse licker 3. a person who is easily conned [...] 5. a general termn of abuse. |
5. (N.Z. prison) a child molester.
![]() | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 8/1: arse licker 4. a child molester. |
sycophancy, grovelling.
![]() | in Lawrence Memoirs (1961) 189: [Written in D.H.L.’s hand over a flattering letter] Arse-licking [OED]. | |
![]() | Dreamers 84: Arse-lickin’ I call it, you’re just scareda gettin’ belted up. | |
![]() | Is That It? 151: I thought of all the arse-licking, the hype, the false politeness. | |
![]() | (con. 1945) Touch and Go 137: It’s too much like the airforce, you know, rank and promotion, and arse-licking. | |
![]() | Filth 314: Stronach, now bolstered by Lennox’s arse-licking, has stopped trying to compete with Dolacre. | |
![]() | Indep. Rev. 21 Jan. 11: He thinks Hollywood’s got a ‘really sick kind of arse-licking hierachy to it’. | |
![]() | Consolation 108: ‘Just ordinary, everyday arselicking is appropriate’. |
1. extremely servile, grovelling.
[ | ![]() | Modern Chivalry (1937) Pt I Vol. I Bk IV 43: It is your scratching, rump-tickling people, that get into place and power]. |
![]() | letter 19 Jan. in Leader (2000) 361: FLITHY ARSELICKING URINESPEAK. | |
![]() | Oz 3 13: Ill-written, unutterably boring, lying, arse-licking speeches. | |
![]() | Bodhrán Makers 305: Better to be with him than at the mercy of contrary priests and arse-lickin’ holy Josies. | |
![]() | (con. 1918) Eye in the Door 31: Bugger off back to London you greasy, arse-licking little sod. | |
![]() | Curvy Lovebox 22: The attention she’s got from the ass-lickin’ clipboard crew. | |
![]() | South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut [film script] Shut your fucking face, uncle fucka. You’re a cocksucking, asslicking uncle fucka. | |
![]() | Indep. Rev. 21 Jan. 11: He thinks Hollywood’s got a ‘really sick kind of arse-licking hierachy to it’. |
2. exaggerated.
![]() | Hooky Gear 196: We head to wha Farooq tells me is a haulage yard. Turn out to be a right arselick description for a shed sinkin in mud. |