PICKTHANK

Definition: PICKTHANK

1. One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.

Specialty Definitions: PICKTHANK

Domain	Definitions
Slang in 1811	PICKTHANK. A tale-bearer or mischief maker. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms within Context: PICKTHANK

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Activity	Housewife, busy bee; new brooms; sharp fellow, sharp blade; devotee, enthusiast, zealot, meddler, intermeddler, intriguer, busybody, pickthank; hummer, hustler, live man, rustler.
Servility	Sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave; (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface , heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translations: PICKTHANK

Language		Translations for "PICKTHANK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Ukranian		підлесник (bootlicker, coax, courtier, flatterer, sycophant, toad, toady, wriggler). (various references)

Vietnamese		kẻ bợ đ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations: PICKTHANK

Anagrams: PICKTHANK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-k-k-n-p-t"
	-3 letters: antick, canthi, catkin, catnip, haptic, hatpin, painch, phatic.
	-4 letters: actin, aitch, antic, chain, chant, chapt, china, chink, inapt, khaki, knack, natch, paint, panic, patch, patin, pinch, pinta, pitch, takin, thack, thank, thick, think.
	-5 letters: akin, ankh, anti, cain, cant, caph, chap, chat, chia, chin, chip, chit, hack, haik, hank, hant, hick, hint, ikat.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-k-k-n-p-t"
	+1 letter: pickthanks.
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Alternative Orthography: PICKTHANK

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Derivations
	Words beginning with "PICKTHANK": pickthanks. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).