brown-nose

verb

1 brown-nose

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brown-noser

noun

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

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