Noun
sycophant (plural sycophants)
- One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
Synonyms: ass-kisser, brown noser, suck-up, yes man
- One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
Synonyms: parasite, flunky, lackey
- (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
Derived terms:
sycophancy
sycophantic
sycophantish
sycophantism
Verb
sycophant (third-person singular simple present sycophants, present participle sycophanting, simple past and past participle sycophanted)
- (transitive, obsolete) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
- (transitive, rare) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.