shrink, hide, fawn, cringe, toady, quail, recoil

A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant., A coarse, rustic woman., To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.

The Chinese people kowtow to their gods.

Defined by Shakespeare, "Fat-kidneyed" is used as an insult to say that someone is gross and clumsy or stupid. A "footlicker" is someone who is toady, a lackey, or a suck-up type of person. So a "fat-kidneyed footlicker" would basically be a gross, clumsy suck-up.

The chicane employ kowtow his boss into giving him a raise.