English
Etymology
A metaphorical image: when kissing the buttocks of another person, one's nose is liable to be covered in brown feces.
Pronunciation
Noun
brown noser (plural brown nosers)
- (idiomatic) One who brownnoses (flatters or humors somebody in an obsequious manner for personal gain); one who sucks up; a bootlicker, ass-kisser, sycophant.
Synonyms
Translations
one who brownnoses
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 擦鞋仔 (caat3 haai4 zai2)
- Mandarin: 巴兒狗/巴儿狗 (zh) (bārgǒu), 巴儿狗 (zh) (bārgǒu), 擦鞋仔 (cāxiézǐ)
- Dutch: kontkusser
- Finnish: ruskeakielinen
- French: lèche-bottes (fr), lèche-cul (fr), cireur de pompes m, cire-pompes (fr) m or f
- German: Arschkriecher (de) m, Speichellecker (de) m, Schleimer (de) m
- Greek: κωλογλείφτης (el) m (kologleíftis), σφουγγοκωλάριος (el) m (sfoungokolários)
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- Italian: leccaculo (it) m
- Japanese: ゴマすり (gomasuri)
- Polish: wdupowłaz m
- Portuguese: puxa-saco (pt) m or f, lambe-botas (pt) m or f
- Russian: подхали́м (ru) m (podxalím), лизоблю́д (ru) m (lizobljúd), жополи́з (ru) m (žopolíz)
- Serbo-Croatian: dupelizac (sh), uvlakač
- Spanish: pelota (es) m or f, chupamedias (es) m or f, lameculos (es) m or f
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