lickspittle
nounHow many syllables in lickspittle?
There are 3 syllables in the word lickspittle.How to pronounce lickspittle:
Definition of lickspittle:
- lickspittle (noun):
- a fawning subordinate toady
- an obnoxious or servile person
Synonyms for lickspittle:
admirer
apparatchik
apple-polisher
bootlicker
brownnoser
crawler
creep
devotee
fan
fawner
flunkey
flunkie
flunky
follower
hanger-on
henchman
henchman or woman or person
idolator
lackey
minion
parasite
partisan
pet
pupil
slave
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Here are some other common 3-syllable words.
- coherence
- sensual
- assemblage
- innermost
- vindictive
- airily
- unconcealed
- delation
- tricolor
- congested
- obtrusion
- mouldering
- marveling
- initials
- gazebo
- eutocia
- coruscate
- capably
- Madeline
- hickory
- Hegira
- committal
- childishness
- unleashing
- plumbery
- outwitted
- meridiem
- capsicum
- mariner
- gloominess
- naked-lady
- underlie
- conservant
- urinal
- Roosevelt
- skedaddled
- minuscule
- repelling
- succumbed
- trashes
- siobhan
- hard-hearted
- theorise
- prominent
- correction
- theologue
- harebrained
- ambrosial
- mushroomer
- intimate
- … more
Syllable Fun Fact
Ambisyllabicity occurs when a consonant at the boundary of two syllables belongs to both, as in the word 'happen'.
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