clawback vs lickspittle

clawback

noun
  • Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine. 

  • A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly turned over to the other party but to which the other party would not have been entitled. 

  • Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision. 

lickspittle

noun
  • The practice of giving empty flattery for personal gain. 

  • A fawning toady; a base sycophant. 

verb
  • To play the toady; take the role of a lickspittle to please (someone). 

How often have the words clawback and lickspittle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )