Pleaseman

Pleaseman
Pleaseman Please"man, n. An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • pleaseman — /plēzˈman or mən/ noun (Shakespeare) An officious fellow, a pick thank • • • Main Entry: ↑please …   Useful english dictionary

  • The Three Ladies of London — is an Elizabethan era stage play, first published in 1584. It is unusual and noteworthy as a philo Semitic response to the prevailing anti Semitism of Elizabethan drama and the larger contemporaneous English society.Date, authorship,… …   Wikipedia

  • pickthank — n. Parasite, flatterer, toady, pleaseman …   New dictionary of synonyms

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”