Translation for 'sycophant' from English to Bulgarian

sycophant {noun}

подлизурко {м} [пей.]

• He is a wise-cracking sycophant from Foo, sent by the nit Antsel to look after Leven, who becomes his burn.
• In character, he was usually the straight man and occasionally an Imus sycophant or antagonist.
• The play's comic relief is supplied by Ferrant's jester Villio and by Castruccio, a court sycophant and parasite.
• But Itō Kashitaro's excellence in academics and martial arts was not ignored by Kondō, no matter how fond he was of his sycophant, Takeda.
• Comedian Wayne Federman had a recurring role as office sycophant, Johnson.

• In January 2020, Shah was targeted by media after criticizing his co-actor colleague Anupam Kher for his views supporting the Indian government’s Citizenship Amendment Act, calling him a clown and sycophant.
• In the sense that a poetaster is a pretended poet, John Marston coined the term "parasitaster," for one who pretends to be a parasite or sycophant, in his play "Parasitaster, or The Fawn" (1604).
• To some psychologists, Wormtongue serves as an archetypal sycophant.
• Widely considered a political opportunist, Zacharie was known to be vain, ambitious, and a sycophant.
• In January 2020, he was involved in a verbal spat with actor Naseeruddin Shah and called him frustrated and a drug addict after the latter called him a clown and a sycophant.

• The common thread in the older and current meanings is that the sycophant is in both instances portrayed as a kind of parasite, speaking falsely and insincerely in the accusation or the flattery for gain.
• The word sycophant comes from the Ancient Greek word συκοφάντης (sykophántēs), meaning "one who shows or reveals figs"; though there is no unequivocal explanation as to the reason why sycophants in Ancient Greece were so called, one explanation is that the sycophant, by making false accusations, insulted the defendant in a manner analogous to making the fig sign.
• A Yes man is a sycophant; an obsequious assistant or enabler.