English
Pronunciation
Verb
suck up (third-person singular simple present sucks up, present participle sucking up, simple past and past participle sucked up)
- (transitive) To absorb (fluid).
- The dry soil sucked up water like a sponge.
- (slang, chiefly with "to") To adulate or flatter somebody excessively, generally to obtain some personal benefit or favour.
- Jimmy sucked up to the English teacher hoping he would get an A.
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Translations
to adulate or flatter excessively
- Danish: fedte for
- Dutch: slijmen (nl)
- Finnish: imarrella (fi), nuoleskella (fi), mielistellä (fi)
- French: lécher les bottes (fr), cirer les pompes (fr)
- Polish: podlizywać się (pl)
- Portuguese: puxar saco
- Russian: подли́зываться (ru) impf (podlízyvatʹsja), подлиза́ться (ru) pf (podlizátʹsja)
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- Scots: souk in wi
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: улизивати (ulizivati), шлихтати (šlihtati), увлачити (uvlačiti)
- Latin: ulizivati (sh), šlihtati, uvlačiti (sh)
- Spanish: dar jabón
- Swedish: fjäska (sv), smöra (sv), lisma (sv), ställa sig in (hos) (sv)
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