obsequious 
March 6, 2005 | 02:16

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obsequious (ob-SEE-kwee-us) adjective

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

[Middle English, from Latin obsequisus, from obsequium, compliance, from obsequ, to comply : ob-, to; see ob- + sequ, to follow; see sekw-1 in Indo-European Roots.]