courtier (n.)
- adherent
- adulator
- appendage
- attendant
- backscratcher
- backslapper
- bootlicker
- brownie
- buff
- clawback
- creature
- dependent
- disciple
- dupe
- fan
- fawner
- flatterer
- flunky
- follower
- following
- groveler
- hanger-on
- helot
- henchman
- instrument
- jackal
- lackey
- minion
- parasite
- partisan
- peon
- public
- puppet
- pursuer
- satellite
- sectary
- serf
- shadow
- slave
- spaniel
- stooge
- successor
- suck
- supporter
- sycophant
- tail
- timeserver
- toad
- toady
- tool
- trainbearer
- truckler
- votary
- wheedler
- yes-man
The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.
