obsequious person
1brown-nose — verb flatter with the intention of getting something • Syn: ↑butter up • Hypernyms: ↑flatter, ↑blandish • Verb Frames: Somebody s somebody Sam cannot brown nose Sue * * * …
2chamcha — [ tʃʌmtʃə] noun Indian informal an obsequious person. Origin from Bengali and Hindi chamra, cham, lit. skin, hide (perh. from the idea of an obsequious person staying very close to a superior) …
3brownnose — brown·nose or brown nose (brounʹnōz ) tr.v. Informal brown·nosed, brown·nos·ing, brown·nos·es To curry favor with in an obsequious manner; fawn on. [From the image of an obsequious person whose nose becomes soiled in kissing the rump of someone …
4flunkey — n. [Written also Flunky.] 1. Lackey, livery servant. 2. Mean fellow, mean spirited person, obsequious person, toady, snob, tuft hunter. 3. (Colloq., U. S.) Dupe (in buying stocks) …
5kiss-ass — noun An obsequious person …
6blandisher — n. flatterer, sycophant, obsequious person …
7blandishers — n. flatterer, sycophant, obsequious person …
8scrape shoe — sycophant, one who flatters, obsequious person …
9bootlicker — noun informal an obsequious person. Derivatives bootlicking noun …
10lackey — noun (plural lackeys) 1》 a servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant. 2》 a servile or obsequious person. 3》 a brownish moth whose caterpillars live in groups in a silken shelter. [Malacosoma neustria.] verb (lackeys, lackeying,… …
