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{"id": "sycophant", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "sycophant", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"entries": [{"etymologies": ["mid 16th century (denoting an informer): from French sycophante, or via Latin from Greek sukophant\u0113s \u2018informer\u2019, from sukon \u2018fig\u2019 + phainein \u2018to show\u2019, perhaps with reference to making the insulting gesture of the \u2018fig\u2019 (sticking the thumb between two fingers) to informers"], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/sycophant_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8s\u026ak\u0259fant"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["a person who acts obsequiously towards someone important in order to gain advantage."], "id": "m_en_gbus1022300.007", "semanticClasses": [{"id": "obsequious_person", "text": "Obsequious_Person"}], "shortDefinitions": ["person who acts obsequiously towards someone important"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "toady"}, {"language": "en", "text": "creep"}, {"language": "en", "text": "crawler"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fawner"}, {"language": "en", "text": "flatterer"}, {"language": "en", "text": "flunkey"}, {"language": "en", "text": "truckler"}, {"language": "en", "text": "groveller"}, {"language": "en", "text": "doormat"}, {"language": "en", "text": "lickspittle"}, {"language": "en", "text": "kowtower"}, {"language": "en", "text": "obsequious person"}, {"language": "en", "text": "minion"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hanger-on"}, {"language": "en", "text": "leech"}, {"language": "en", "text": "puppet"}, {"language": "en", "text": "spaniel"}, {"language": "en", "text": "Uriah Heep"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "sycophant", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0014548.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "noun", "text": "Noun"}, "text": "sycophant"}], "type": "headword", "word": "sycophant"}], "word": "sycophant"}
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