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▸ noun:  One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
▸ noun:  One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
▸ verb:  (transitive, rare) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

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