pickthankn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpɪkθaŋk/, U.S.

/ˈpɪkˌθæŋk/

Forms: see pick v.¹ and thank n.; also Scottish 1900s– peckthank.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pick- comb. form, thank n.

Etymology: < pick- comb. form + thank n., after to pick a thank at pick v.¹ 14a.

Now archaic and literary.

A. n.

A person who curries favour with another, esp. by informing against someone else; a flatterer, a sycophant; a telltale.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer

papelard1340

placeboc1395

fawnerc1440

pickthank1460

adulator?a1475

earwigc1475

curry-favel1515

men-pleaser1526

gnatho1533

upcreeperc1540

claw-back1549

curry-favourer1563

man-pleaser1564

claw-poll1569

please-man1570

sycophant1575

curry-favour1577

capper1587

insinuator1598

clawera1603

scrape-shoe1607

suck-fist1611

courtiera1616

foot lickera1616

fleerera1627

wriggler1631

fawn1635

limberham1689

toad-eater1742

tuft-hunter1755

arse-kisser1766

sleeve-creeper1809

lick-spit1822

lickspittle1825

shoe-licker1826

toady1826

toad1831

toader1842

bootlicker1846

bootlick1849

favour-currier1855

lubricator1872

bum-sucker1877

handshaker1884

suck1900

mbongo1911

sucker-up1911

apple-polisher1918

snurge1933

ass-licker1939

brown-nose1939

brown-noser1942

arse-licker1951

ass-kisser1951

greaser1959

suck-hole1966

suck-up1970

bumboy1984

fly-

1460 G. Sperlyng in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 203 Som men shuld sey of me as pikethankys to noyse me double.

c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 194 And euir þei schal make talys yche of odyr, jche of hem to schewe hym-self profitabil..yit haue uery knowyng þat sqwyche pykethankis.

1551 Gray's New Year's Gift 86 in F. J. Furnivall Ballads from MSS (1868) I. 423 Refuse those pikethanckes that Imagyn lyes!

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 25 Smiling pickthanks, and base newes mongers.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 289 These speeches that pick-thank reported to Antipater, with exaggerations of his own to make them more odious.

1672 T. Shadwell Miser iii. iii. 47 Sir, I cannot endure these Flatterers, and Pickthanks.

1710 L. Milbourne Meas. Resistance to Higher Powers 24 When other pick-thanks might be ready to inform against them.

1737 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. at Pick Pickthanks and Parasites, who fix themselves upon noble Persons.

1820 W. Scott Abbot I. vi. 140 I had been called pickthank and tale-pyet.

1896 L. Macmanus Silk of Kine 161 Ah, if my man was here he'd make these pick-thanks run.

1950 tr. M. Soldati in M. Caetani Anthol. New Ital. Writers 45 What did she tell you, that hypocrite, that pickthank, that viper?

1996 Toronto Life (Nexis) Dec. 102–6 And besides, I like this man. Here is no conceited pickthank.

B. adj.

Of, characteristic of, or designating a pickthank; flattering, sycophantic; talebearing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [adjective]

fikingc1230

papelarda1500

gnathonical1540

clawing1574

pickthank1575

slavering1575

claw-back1577

courting1580

fawning1585

adulatory1587

insinuating1592

insinuative1592

scraping1599

adulatorious1612

men-pleasing1615

pickthanking1621

sycophantical1632

gnathonic1637

insinuanta1639

sycophantizing1640

ingratiating1642

led1672

sycophanting1674

sycophantly1680

sycophanta1684

sycophantica1698

pickthankly1702

assiduous1725

foot-licking1786

tuft-hunting1789

sycophantish1821

favour-currying1831

bootlicking1849

toadying1863

creepy-crawly1890

slauming1904

toadyish1909

ass-licking1940

ass-kissing1942

brown-nosing1946

arse-licking1950

sucky1991

1575 J. Awdely Fraternitye of Vacabondes (new ed.) sig. B4 This is a pickthanke knaue, that would make his Maister beleue that the Cowe is woode.

1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. B4 He sets more discord in a noble house, By one daies broching of his pickethanke tales, Then can be salu'd againe in twentie yeares.

?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 263 [He] told her, they were pick thanke knaves & liers who had raysed this report to break the match between them.

1740 D. Bellamy Perjur'd Devotee II. i. ii. 16 I'll make thee an Example to all the politick, pimping, pick-thank Rogues in the Kingdom, you Dog, you.

1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. (1860) xii. 200 An effeminate parader of phrases of endearment and pickthank adulation.

1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 214 It is at best a pettifogging, pickthank business to decompose actions into little personal motives, and explain heroism away.

1956 J. Murray Rural Rhymes 41 Ye're jist a peck thank senseless hizzy.

1999 Financial Mail (South Africa) (Nexis) 28 May 132 During their elongated pickthank interview Molefe took the part of the straight guy.

Derivatives

† pickthankness n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > quality or character of

fawningness1672

pickthankness1672

insinuativeness1727

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 284 But for the pickthankness of some of the Clergy, who will alwayes presume to have the thanks and honour of it.

1673 Bp. S. Parker Reproof Rehearsal Transprosed 470 Thus we see from what small Beginnings the greatest Actions and Alterations take their rise & the late bloody War was begun by the Pickthankness of a Vicar of Brackley.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† pickthankv.

Forms: 1600s pickethanke, 1600s–1800s pickthank.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pickthank n.

Etymology: < pickthank n.

Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To play the part of a pickthank; to curry favour with a person. Also transitive: to obtain by sycophancy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour [verb (intransitive)]

fain?c1225

fawnc1325

to make placebo1340

fagea1382

curryc1400

to curry favela1420

to claw (a person's) toea1500

to curry favour?1518

to be at the school of placebo1554

to play (with) placebo1583

insinuatea1593

wriggle1601

lick1602

sycophantize1605

gnathonize1619

pickthank1621

supparasitate1623

ingratiate1647

slaver1730

toad-eat1766

slaum1787

to eat (any one's) toads1788

toad1802

bootlick1846

toady1861

to suck in1899

smoodge1906

smarm1911

arse-lick1928

bum-suck1930

to suck round1931

ass-lick1937

brown-nose1939

suck-hole1961

weasel1980

pickthanka1734

1621 [implied in: M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 43 While he did credit pickthanking Counsellors. (at pickthanking adj.)].

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 308 Many there bee who..to flatter and pickethanke with their Masters..do great things.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. §95. 278 He did it to pick-thank an Opportunity of getting more Money.

1855 ‘H. Whitney’ Legends Mt. Leinster 51 Pick-thanking, and tattling, and telling lies of him.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	pickthank
释义	pickthankn.adj. Brit. /ˈpɪkθaŋk/, U.S. /ˈpɪkˌθæŋk/ Forms: see pick v.¹ and thank n.; also Scottish 1900s– peckthank. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pick- comb. form, thank n. Etymology: < pick- comb. form + thank n., after to pick a thank at pick v.¹ 14a. Now archaic and literary. A. n. A person who curries favour with another, esp. by informing against someone else; a flatterer, a sycophant; a telltale. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer papelard1340 placeboc1395 fawnerc1440 pickthank1460 adulator?a1475 earwigc1475 curry-favel1515 men-pleaser1526 gnatho1533 upcreeperc1540 claw-back1549 curry-favourer1563 man-pleaser1564 claw-poll1569 please-man1570 sycophant1575 curry-favour1577 capper1587 insinuator1598 clawera1603 scrape-shoe1607 suck-fist1611 courtiera1616 foot lickera1616 fleerera1627 wriggler1631 fawn1635 limberham1689 toad-eater1742 tuft-hunter1755 arse-kisser1766 sleeve-creeper1809 lick-spit1822 lickspittle1825 shoe-licker1826 toady1826 toad1831 toader1842 bootlicker1846 bootlick1849 favour-currier1855 lubricator1872 bum-sucker1877 handshaker1884 suck1900 mbongo1911 sucker-up1911 apple-polisher1918 snurge1933 ass-licker1939 brown-nose1939 brown-noser1942 arse-licker1951 ass-kisser1951 greaser1959 suck-hole1966 suck-up1970 bumboy1984 fly- 1460 G. Sperlyng in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 203 Som men shuld sey of me as pikethankys to noyse me double. c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 194 And euir þei schal make talys yche of odyr, jche of hem to schewe hym-self profitabil..yit haue uery knowyng þat sqwyche pykethankis. 1551 Gray's New Year's Gift 86 in F. J. Furnivall Ballads from MSS (1868) I. 423 Refuse those pikethanckes that Imagyn lyes! 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 25 Smiling pickthanks, and base newes mongers. View more context for this quotation a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 289 These speeches that pick-thank reported to Antipater, with exaggerations of his own to make them more odious. 1672 T. Shadwell Miser iii. iii. 47 Sir, I cannot endure these Flatterers, and Pickthanks. 1710 L. Milbourne Meas. Resistance to Higher Powers 24 When other pick-thanks might be ready to inform against them. 1737 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. at Pick Pickthanks and Parasites, who fix themselves upon noble Persons. 1820 W. Scott Abbot I. vi. 140 I had been called pickthank and tale-pyet. 1896 L. Macmanus Silk of Kine 161 Ah, if my man was here he'd make these pick-thanks run. 1950 tr. M. Soldati in M. Caetani Anthol. New Ital. Writers 45 What did she tell you, that hypocrite, that pickthank, that viper? 1996 Toronto Life (Nexis) Dec. 102–6 And besides, I like this man. Here is no conceited pickthank. B. adj. Of, characteristic of, or designating a pickthank; flattering, sycophantic; talebearing. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [adjective] fikingc1230 papelarda1500 gnathonical1540 clawing1574 pickthank1575 slavering1575 claw-back1577 courting1580 fawning1585 adulatory1587 insinuating1592 insinuative1592 scraping1599 adulatorious1612 men-pleasing1615 pickthanking1621 sycophantical1632 gnathonic1637 insinuanta1639 sycophantizing1640 ingratiating1642 led1672 sycophanting1674 sycophantly1680 sycophanta1684 sycophantica1698 pickthankly1702 assiduous1725 foot-licking1786 tuft-hunting1789 sycophantish1821 favour-currying1831 bootlicking1849 toadying1863 creepy-crawly1890 slauming1904 toadyish1909 ass-licking1940 ass-kissing1942 brown-nosing1946 arse-licking1950 sucky1991 1575 J. Awdely Fraternitye of Vacabondes (new ed.) sig. B4 This is a pickthanke knaue, that would make his Maister beleue that the Cowe is woode. 1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. B4 He sets more discord in a noble house, By one daies broching of his pickethanke tales, Then can be salu'd againe in twentie yeares. ?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 263 [He] told her, they were pick thanke knaves & liers who had raysed this report to break the match between them. 1740 D. Bellamy Perjur'd Devotee II. i. ii. 16 I'll make thee an Example to all the politick, pimping, pick-thank Rogues in the Kingdom, you Dog, you. 1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. (1860) xii. 200 An effeminate parader of phrases of endearment and pickthank adulation. 1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 214 It is at best a pettifogging, pickthank business to decompose actions into little personal motives, and explain heroism away. 1956 J. Murray Rural Rhymes 41 Ye're jist a peck thank senseless hizzy. 1999 Financial Mail (South Africa) (Nexis) 28 May 132 During their elongated pickthank interview Molefe took the part of the straight guy. Derivatives † pickthankness n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > quality or character of fawningness1672 pickthankness1672 insinuativeness1727 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 284 But for the pickthankness of some of the Clergy, who will alwayes presume to have the thanks and honour of it. 1673 Bp. S. Parker Reproof Rehearsal Transprosed 470 Thus we see from what small Beginnings the greatest Actions and Alterations take their rise & the late bloody War was begun by the Pickthankness of a Vicar of Brackley. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pickthankv. Forms: 1600s pickethanke, 1600s–1800s pickthank. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pickthank n. Etymology: < pickthank n. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To play the part of a pickthank; to curry favour with a person. Also transitive: to obtain by sycophancy. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour [verb (intransitive)] fain?c1225 fawnc1325 to make placebo1340 fagea1382 curryc1400 to curry favela1420 to claw (a person's) toea1500 to curry favour?1518 to be at the school of placebo1554 to play (with) placebo1583 insinuatea1593 wriggle1601 lick1602 sycophantize1605 gnathonize1619 pickthank1621 supparasitate1623 ingratiate1647 slaver1730 toad-eat1766 slaum1787 to eat (any one's) toads1788 toad1802 bootlick1846 toady1861 to suck in1899 smoodge1906 smarm1911 arse-lick1928 bum-suck1930 to suck round1931 ass-lick1937 brown-nose1939 suck-hole1961 weasel1980 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour with [verb (transitive)] > obtain by pickthanka1734 1621 [implied in: M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 43 While he did credit pickthanking Counsellors. (at pickthanking adj.)]. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 308 Many there bee who..to flatter and pickethanke with their Masters..do great things. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. §95. 278 He did it to pick-thank an Opportunity of getting more Money. 1855 ‘H. Whitney’ Legends Mt. Leinster 51 Pick-thanking, and tattling, and telling lies of him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.adj.1460v.1621
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