Significados de bootlick en inglés

Turned down for that fellow Prescott--thatshifty dodger and cheap bootlick!

And you've got to play politics, bootlick your boss-allthat.

Bah, as if I could ever get over my dislike for a bootlick like Prescott!

Bone bootlick on-tocultivate the favor of.

Occasionally a cadet who wants cadet honors resorts to "boning bootlick" with the tactical officers stationed at the academy.

He became a "bone," and tried so hard to delight his instructors that he was suspected of boning bootlick with the Academic Board.

But the crawling, bootlicking carpenter, Jacob Engstrand, is changed into a respectable, guileless man with an income.

"If those newspaper fellows get hold of it!" gasped Sir Arthur Poodle Bootlick...

"Wearing chevrons isn't the only sign of bootlick," replied Haynes.

"I'm not boning bootlick with cadets or with officers either," retorted Dick rather crisply.

"Oh, I know you have plenty of bootlicks," sneered Jordan.

"I've never been one of the authorities on bootlick."

"I don't stand for a bootlick," replied Cadet Stubbs.

"Then how can you stand for a bootlick?"

"Why," asked Hayes, opening his eyes rather wide, "are you boning bootlick with any but officers?"

"Boning bootlick" means to curry favor.