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Meanings of brown-noser in English

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

      Synonyms
      Examples for "toady"
      Examples for "toady"
      1
      The countess here does toady you, and so do the young ladies.
      Doctor Thorne
      2
      Shit you might have been, evil-toady Goliathlackey shit you most definitely weren't.
      One of our Thursdays is missing
      3
      I think he is a toady; a kind of German Boswell.
      Hyperion
      4
      Dear Madam, this is to cancel my subscription because of that Brit-loving toady.
      The Irish Times
      5
      Guards in scarlet flanked the shadow; a Chagrian toady cringed nearby.
      Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
      1
      Some admirer-someroyal sycophant from the Continent-musthave given it to him.
      The system of the world
      2
      He became as full of smiles and capers as the meanest sycophant.
      Bardelys the Magnificent / Being an account of the strange wooin...
      3
      Shakespeare was a sycophant, a flunkey if you will, but nothing worse.
      The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story
      4
      The farmer spirit is almost the same as the sycophant spirit.
      Down with the Cities!
      5
      He bowed and smiled-thesmile of a courtier and sycophant- asmileI hated.
      Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten
      1
      It's all thanks to the lickspittle senators whom he has appointed too.
      The road to rome: a forgotten legion chronicle
      2
      The promise of gold had turned the Oldtowner into a shameless lickspittle.
      A clash of kings
      3
      I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle!
      The Professor
      4
      Damned if he'd risk his life for the king's lickspittle vampire.
      Burning up
      5
      An entire political class played lickspittle to American neoimperialism.
      The Guardian
      1
      I'm not about to announce she was a bootlicker.
      Pasta Imperfect
      2
      The self-important little bootlicker with the bowl cut.
      Fiendish deeds
      3
      A bootlicker! I'm not a snob!
      The Rains Came
      4
      I'm not a bootlicker!
      The Rains Came
      5
      I knew you were stupid and silly and a fool but I never thought you were a snob and a bootlicker.
      The Rains Came
      1
      And, he thought, he was lining up at the head of ten thousand generations of ass-kissers.
      Dayworld Rebel
      2
      "You're a good ass-kisser, too."
      Dearly Devoted Dexter
      1
      'You forgetting something, Jez; everyone forgets, except maybe good old brown-nose Bernhard.
      The Naked God
      Usage of brown-noser in English
      1
      A few brown-nosers now considered it safe to approach.
      Quicksilver
      2
      She was one of the leading backbench brown-nosers of Enda Kenny at the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party.
      The Irish Times
      3
      "You're not impressing anyone, ya bloody brown-nosers!" Reggie shouted after them as he reclined on a mound of dirt and lit a roll-up.
      Secret of the seventh son