different between bootlicking vs crawling

English

Verb

bootlicking

1. present participle of bootlick

Noun

bootlicking (countable and uncountable, plural bootlickings)

1. servile behaviour
   • 1951, The Library Assistant (volumes 44-45, page xiii)

     The most obvious — for a junior struggling to lift himself from the mire by his bootlickings — is to go to his Chief and say — frankly — "Out! I need the experience and you need a rest. Clear off for a month or two. I'll cope."

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?k???l??/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?k??l??/
• Rhymes: -??l??

Verb

crawling

1. Present participle and gerund of crawl.

Noun

crawling (plural crawlings)

1. The motion of something that crawls.
   • 1840-41, Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

     Miss Brass […] devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.

Anagrams

• claw ring