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Meanings of bootlick in English
Synonyms
Examples for "fawn"
Examples for "fawn"
1
Yes, it is true that the jaguar and the fawn hide here.
2
He looked down at the fawn in a helpless sort of way.
3
Its materials were of a fawn-coloured stone, common in the Mowbray quarries.
4
Our young braves run to battle with the swiftness of the fawn.
5
She put her hand in his and jumped lightly as a fawn.
1
The countess here does toady you, and so do the young ladies.
2
Shit you might have been, evil-toady Goliathlackey shit you most definitely weren't.
3
I think he is a toady; a kind of German Boswell.
4
Dear Madam, this is to cancel my subscription because of that Brit-loving toady.
5
Guards in scarlet flanked the shadow; a Chagrian toady cringed nearby.
1
Off with your cap, Snob; down on your knees, Snob, and truckle.
2
Two truckle beds, a table, and two chairs formed the sole furniture.
3
Quest was on his hands and knees, fumbling under his truckle bed.
4
At last the man came, shuffling, grumbling, and cursing, from his truckle-bed.
5
I'm not going to truckle to rascals because I'm afraid of them.
1
I didn't know-She has an overwhelming urge to kowtow before him.
2
Since when is it my job to kowtow to heathen vegetarians, anyway?
3
But it never is, because people like Steve cannot kowtow to anyone.
4
You've gotten tired of reading that you kowtow to your banking clients.
5
But more importantly, it's not just a statement or kowtow to government regulations.
1
It was the elder one to whom the world kotow-ed.
2
The smile returned to her face, and her body bent in a kind of kotow.
3
Even in the midst of a mess like this we'll have to kotow to his rank or he'll probably be reporting us.
4
I believe if you asked me to do the Chinese kotow, and bend to the earth before you, I'd secretly be dying to do it.
5
Later we ladies were invited into the room, where the Chinese all kotowed.
1
I'm not including this just to suck up to you, Tom, honest.
2
But there's no one of any importance left to suck up to!
3
Next time you suck up your loss like a big girl, eh?
4
The anteater can suck up water and be used as a watering can.
5
Jetpack Joyrideis an addictive, clever game that will suck up your free time.
Usage of bootlick in English
1
Turned down for that fellow Prescott--thatshifty dodger and cheap bootlick!
2
And you've got to play politics, bootlick your boss-allthat.
3
Bah, as if I could ever get over my dislike for a bootlick like Prescott!
4
Bone bootlick on-tocultivate the favor of.
5
Occasionally a cadet who wants cadet honors resorts to "boning bootlick" with the tactical officers stationed at the academy.
6
He became a "bone," and tried so hard to delight his instructors that he was suspected of boning bootlick with the Academic Board.
7
But the crawling, bootlicking carpenter, Jacob Engstrand, is changed into a respectable, guileless man with an income.
8
"If those newspaper fellows get hold of it!" gasped Sir Arthur Poodle Bootlick...
9
"Wearing chevrons isn't the only sign of bootlick," replied Haynes.
10
"I'm not boning bootlick with cadets or with officers either," retorted Dick rather crisply.
11
"Oh, I know you have plenty of bootlicks," sneered Jordan.
12
"I've never been one of the authorities on bootlick."
13
"I don't stand for a bootlick," replied Cadet Stubbs.
14
"Then how can you stand for a bootlick?"
15
"Why," asked Hayes, opening his eyes rather wide, "are you boning bootlick with any but officers?"
16
"Boning bootlick" means to curry favor.
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Frequent collocations
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