Synonyms for brown-nose
- verb
- noun
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Verb
apple-polish US, butter up informal, bow and scrape, kiss up, lick someone's ass, suck up, toady, fawn, kiss someone's ass slang, kiss someone's arse UK, bootlick rare
Noun
Definitions
- v. 1
To flatter someone (especially a superior) in an obsequious manner, and to support their every opinion.
- n. 1
One who sucks up; a bootlicker or sycophant.
Related words
- Other spellings
- brownnose
Forms
- Plural
- brown-noses
- Past participle
- brown-nosed
e.g. brown-nosed → apple-polished, toadied, fawned, bootlicked…
By length
- 4 letters
- fawn1
- 5 letters
- toady
- 8 letters
- bootlick