lickpotEtymologyFrom Middle English likpot; equivalent to lick + pot, presumably from the act of using a finger to clean a pot after eating.lickpot means The forefinger. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.nounThe forefinger.“Coordinate term: thumbkin”An untrustworthy sycophant.“. And the message that came was by the mouth of a kind of jackal or lickpot of John Dick's — who, for reasons of his own, hated me, chiefly because I took no share in the foulness of him and his subservient crew.”