Definitions
1.nounOne who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
2.nounOne who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
3.nounAn informer; a talebearer.
4.verbTo inform against; hence, to calumniate.
5.verbTo play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.