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Meanings of brown-nose in English

Portuguese
bajular

Flatter with the intention of getting something.

        bajular

        Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.

            Synonyms
            Examples for "butter up"
            Examples for "butter up"
            1
            But I'd counted on having more time to butter up Nightingale first.
            Whispers Under Ground
            2
            Don't look shocked, and I know how you go and butter up your professors.
            The ginger man
            3
            He says it when he wants to let himself go and simply butter up a thing.
            Mike
            4
            You really explained it well, Miri, and you know I'm not one to butter up my teachers.
            And the rat laughed
            5
            I say so myself; and butter up my vanity with all the stimulating compliments I can think of.
            The Letters of Robert Burns
            Usage of brown-nose in English
            1
            Every TFNG walked into NASA a slavishly loyal subject of King George, and we competed in pathetic attempts to brown-nose him.
            Riding rockets
            2
            'You forgetting something, Jez; everyone forgets, except maybe good old brown-nose Bernhard.
            The Naked God
            3
            When Randolph was finally gone, Carter said: "If I swear I'm not brown-nosing, can I tell you something?"
            Under the dome: a novel
            4
            'Are you gonna tell Al we did to Jezzibella what they did to Brown-nose Bernhard?'
            The Naked God
            5
            Aech must have thought I was brown-nosing, because she snickered throughout my stammering monologue, but Og was very cool about it.
            Ready Player One
            Translations for brown-nose
            Portuguese
            bajular