Word Definition

Sycophant

  1. To play the sycophant.
  2. To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
  3. To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
  4. An informer; a talebearer.
  5. A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.