Sycophant
81brown-nose — 1. AND brownie; brown noser n. a sycophant; one who flatters for self serving motives. □ You are just a plain old brown nose. □ That brown noser actually gave the boss a bottle of wine for her birthday. 2. tv. & in. to curry favor with someone;… …
82fig — English has two words fig. Fig the fruit [13] comes via Old French figue, Provençal figua, and Vulgar Latin *fica from Latin ficus. This, together with its Greek relative súkon (source of English sycamore and sycophant), came from a pre Indo… …
83bootlicking — adjective 1. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery • Syn: ↑fawning, ↑obsequious, ↑sycophantic, ↑toadyish • Similar to: ↑insincere • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
84fawning — adjective 1. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery • Syn: ↑bootlicking, ↑obsequious, ↑sycophantic, ↑toadyish • Similar to: ↑insincere • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
85sycophantic — adjective 1. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery • Syn: ↑bootlicking, ↑fawning, ↑obsequious, ↑toadyish • Similar to: ↑insincere • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
86toadyish — adjective 1. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery • Syn: ↑bootlicking, ↑fawning, ↑obsequious, ↑sycophantic • Similar to: ↑insincere • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
87sycophantize — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷(ˌ) ̷ ̷ˌtīz intransitive verb ( ed/ ing/ s) Etymology: sycophant (I) + ize archaic : to play the sycophant …
88sycophantise — sycˈophantize or sycˈophantise intransitive verb To play the sycophant • • • Main Entry: ↑sycophant …
89sycophantry — sycˈophantry noun The arts of the sycophant • • • Main Entry: ↑sycophant …
90Artificial person — Person Per son, n. [OE. persone, persoun, person, parson, OF. persone, F. personne, L. persona a mask (used by actors), a personage, part, a person, fr. personare to sound through; per + sonare to sound. See {Per }, and cf. {Parson}.] 1. A… …
