Sycophant /(?)/

Syc·o·phant

Sycophant

n.
  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.

Sycophant

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

Sycophant

v. i.
  1. To play the sycophant.