vi to play the sycophant.
2. sycophant ·noun an informer; a talebearer.
3. sycophant ·vt to inform against; hence, to calumniate.
4. sycophant ·vt to play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
5. sycophant ·noun a base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.