Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) sycophantic.

[1577		Holinshed Irish Chronicle 48: They that make more haste then good speede clincke there bummes to the stones. And therefore the ruder sorte [...] commonly term it, not so homely, as truely, kisse arse lane].
1918		in E. Wilson Prelude (1967) 274: A kiss-ass attitude.
1967		F. Salas Tattoo the Wicked Cross (1981) 192: He ain’t nothin’ but a kiss-ass punk himself. He does everything the Buzzer says.
1970		S. Vance Courageous and Proud 17: Everyone thought he was a kiss-ass soldier because he had made Specialist Fourth Class before the line soldiers [HDAS].
1981		E. Bunker Little Boy Blue (1995) 54: Fuck you . . . you kiss-ass motherfucker.
1993		(con. 1969) N.L. Russell Suicide Charlie 125: Major is the most kiss-ass rank in the army.
2003		H.J. Scheuermann Gore Experiment 16: ‘Yeah,’ he jested, ‘sorry that you’re a kiss ass paper pusher.’ [...] ‘A hungry kiss ass paper pusher.’.
2013		J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 74: Methadone — originally called Dolophine, named for Adolph Hitler by kiss-ass Nazi chemists.