1. (n.) A self-seeking flatterer of those in high position; a fawning parasite\.

2. (n.) An informer; a talebearer.

3. (v. t.) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.

4. (v. t.) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

5. (v. i.) To play the sycophant.

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