? Obs. A parasite; a toady.
1590. Greene, Never too Late, Wks. (Grosart), VIII. 130. Flattering Gnatos, that only are time pleasers and trencher friends.
1607. Shaks., Timon, III. vi. 106. You Fooles of Fortune, Trencher-friends, Time Flyes, Cap and knee-Slaues.
1681. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen. (1693), 647. A Trencher friend; amicus mensæ.
1763. C. Johnston, Reverie, II. 243. He gathered all his old pot-companions and trencher-friends about him, and fell to carousing as usual.
