brown-nose in English

verb
1
curry favor with (someone) by acting in an obsequious way.
academics were brown-nosing the senior faculty
noun
1
a person who acts in a grossly obsequious way.
He trusts fewer and fewer goons henchmen ministers, preferring unelected brown-nosers .
verb

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1. Brownnose can also be written as brown-nose or brown nose

2. Dudley,[Sentencedict.com] flesh-colored or brown nose shall disqualify.

3. A Dudley , flesh - colored or brown nose shall disqualify.

4. Brown-nose or Brownnose is an idiom that was first seen in the twentieth century

5. Synonyms for Bootlicker include crawler, creep, fawner, flatterer, lickspittle, suck-up, sycophant, toady, apple-polisher and brown-nose

6. Blandished definition: praise somewhat dishonestly synonyms: kowtow, praise, toady, truckle, bootlick, fawn, adulate, flatter, brown-nose, stroke, kotow, soft

7. Brown-nose (third-person singular simple present brown-noses, present participle brown-nosing, simple past and past participle brown-nosed) Alternative spelling of Brownnose

8. Brown-nose (noun) · brown-noses (plural noun) · brown-noser (noun) · brownnose (noun) · Brownnoses (plural noun) · brown-nosers (plural noun) a person who acts in a grossly obsequious way

9. Brown-nose (v.) also Brownnose, 1939, American English colloquial, said to be military slang originally, from brown (adj.) + nose (n.), "from the implication that servility is tantamount to having one's nose in the anus of the person from whom advancement is sought" [ Webster, 1961, quoted in OED].