clawbacks

Updated: May 19, 2025

These are my flatterers, my soothers, my clawbacks, my smoothers, my parasites, my saluters, my givers of good-morrows, and perpetual orators; which makes me verily think that the supremest height of heroic virtue described by Hesiod consisteth in being a debtor, wherein I held the first degree in my commencement.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3