A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage.

synonyms: crawler, lackey, sycophant, toady.

Roget 935: flatterer, adulator; eulogist, euphemist; optimist, encomiast, laudator [Lat.], whitewasher.    toady, toadeater^†; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; flaneur [Fr.], proneur [Fr.]; puffer, touter^†, claqueur [Fr.]; clawback^†, earwig, doer of dirty work; parasite, hanger-on etc. (servility) 886.    yes-man, suckup, ass-kisser [Vulg.], brown-noser [Vulg.], teacher's pet.    ... show more

Dutch: sycofant, fleemkous, flemer, flikflooier, gatlikker, hielenlikker, kontkruiper, kontlikker, kruiper, ogendienaar, sijsjeslijmer, slijmbal, slijmerd, slippedrager, slippendrager, strooplikker, stroopsmeerder ... show more
Polish: przydupas, wazeliniarz, przytupas