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Synonyms for suck up

  • verb
  • noun

Most common

kiss up brown-nose fawn kowtow suck absorb glaze

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Fawn — to absorb (fluid)

fawn, sugar up informal, kiss up, butter up informal, brown-nose, lick someone's boots informal, kowtow, toady, bow and scrape, truckle, kiss ass vulgar informal US, kiss arse UK, lick someone's ass vulgar, bootlick rare

2. Absorb

absorb, take in, suck, draw, soak up, imbibe, sop up

3. Shine up

play up, shine up, cozy up

Other

glaze, arselick vulgar slang UK IE

Noun

take-up, yes man, teacher's pet, goody two shoes, sycophant, brown noser, asskisser vulgar US

Antonyms

talk back, answer back, argue

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Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To absorb (fluid).

    The dry soil sucked up water like a sponge.

  2. v. 2

    To adulate or flatter (someone) excessively, generally to obtain some personal benefit or favour.

    Jimmy sucked up to the English teacher hoping he would get an A.

  3. v. 3

    To fellate (someone).

  4. n. 1

    A person who sucks up, or plays up through adulation or flattery or other such devices to win another's favour; a brown-noser.

Related words

Is a kind of
adulate flatter obey schmooze
Other spellings
suck-up suckup

Example sentences

  • fawn Gleam is a tan colored fawn owned by Rapunzel.
  • suck Let's suck down some brewskis and have a good time!
  • absorb The glass can't absorb water, but the curtain can.

By length

4 letters
draw1, suck1, fawn1
5 letters
glaze1, toady
6 letters
absorb2, imbibe2, kowtow2
7 letters
truckle
8 letters
bootlick, arselick
9 letters
sycophant, asskisser

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (absorb2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
faire de la lèche