Synonyms for butter up
All synonyms
Verb
1. Kiss up
kiss up, suck up, honey around informal, apple-polish US, fawn, kowtow, fawn over, toady, honey up informal dated, overflatter rare, bootlick rare
Other
sweet-talk informal, stroke US, brown-nose, flatter, coax, cajole, carney, wheedle, word dated, soap slang dated, engle dated, blandander dated IE
Definitions
- v. 1
To flatter, especially with the intent of personal gain.
He takes every opportunity to butter up the boss.
Example sentences
- fawn Gleam is a tan colored fawn owned by Rapunzel.
- flatter I liked it when programs didn't try to flatter me.
By length
- 4 letters
- word1, soap1, fawn1, coax1
- 5 letters
- engle2, toady
- 6 letters
- stroke1, carney2, kowtow2, cajole2
- 7 letters
- flatter2, wheedle
- 8 letters
- bootlick
- 10 letters
- blandander
- 11 letters
- overflatter
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (engle2 = 2 syllables).