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benson
noun
a toady, a sycophant UK: SCOTLAND
Apparently derived from the name of the butler character in US television situation comedy Soap, 1978–82, and its concurrent spin-off Benson, 1979–86.- You’re alwaya sookin up tae the teachers, ya wee benson. — Michael Munro, The Complete Patter, 1996
- When [At school in the mid-1980s] somebody did you a favour you could easily piss them off by saying “Cheers Benson” instead of saying “Thanks”, to imply that they were some sort of servant or slave. — Chris Lewis, The Dictionary of Playground Slang, p. 28, 2003
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