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An informer; a talebearer.

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  1. n. An informer; a talebearer.
  2. n. A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.
  3. v. t. To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
  4. v. t. To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
  5. v. i. To play the sycophant.
  6. n. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
  7. n:100 n. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage