Definition of "pickthank" [pick•thank]

• A sycophant, a yes-man. (noun)

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• "I If I had not held you as so old an acquaintance, this should have gone to my Lady’s ears though I had been called pickthank and tale-pyet for my pains, as when I told of Roland Graeme shooting the wild swan.”"
• "A new-married man, when a pickthank friend of his, to curry favour, had showed him his wife familiar in private with a young gallant, courting and dallying,"
• "It is at best but a pettifogging, pickthank business to decompose actions into little personal motives, and explain heroism away."