brownnose
[verb]
Synonyms: fawn, apple-polish, bootlick, cower, cringe, grovel, honey (up), kowtow, toady, truckle
[noun]
Synonyms: sycophant, bootlick, bootlicker, clawback, footlicker, lickspit, lickspittle, spaniel, toadeater, toady

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

brown·nose or brown-nose (brounnōz)
tr.v. Informal brown·nosed, brown·nos·ing, brown·nos·es
To curry favor with in an obsequious manner; fawn on.

[TahlilGaran] American Dictionary ▲

brownnose
[From the image of an obsequious person whose nose becomes soiled in kissing the rump of someone from whom favor is sought.]

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brownnose
brownnose n.
brownnoser n.

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