Obs. [f. LICK v. + SPIGOT.] One who licks the spigot; a contemptuous name for a tapster or drawer; also, a parasite.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, Wks. (Grosart), V. 300–1. Let the cunningest licke-spiggot swelt his heart out, the beere shal neuer foame or froath in the cupp.
1599. Middleton, etc., Old Law, IV. i. Cook (to the Drawer) Fill, lick-spiggot!
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 509. Parasites … whom the Germans call Schmorotzer and Tellerlecker, that is, smell-feasts and lick-spickets.
1611. Chapman, May Day, Plays, 1873, II. 362. I know the old lickspiggot will be nibling a little when he can come too’t.
1700. E. Ward, Lond. Spy, II. iii. 4. He that salutes the old Lick-spiggot with other Title than that of Mr. Church-Warden runs the hazard of Paying double Taxes.
