Sycophant — Defs

01 n. An informer; a talebearer.

1.
An informer; a talebearer.[Obs.]
2.
A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.
“A sycophant will everything admire: Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire.” — Dryden.

02 v. t. To inform against; hence, to calumniate.

1.
To inform against; hence, to calumniate.[Obs.]
“Sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary.” — Milton.
2.
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

03 v. i. To play the sycophant.