yes man

See also: yesman and yes-man

English

Alternative forms

• yes-man, yesman

Pronunciation

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Noun

yes man (plural yes men)

1. (idiomatic) A person who always agrees with their employer or superior.

   Synonyms: yeasayer, yea-sayer, asskisser, ass-licker, bootlicker, brown noser, suck-up, sycophant, toady, Uriah Heep

   Antonyms: hero, mensch, truthteller

   Crowds of yes men elbowed one another out of the way, hoping to get a chance to kiss the boss's ring.

   • 1868, New Zealand Parliament, Parliamentary debates, volume 55, numbers 13-25, page 2437:

     The function of a Vice-President is the job of a yes-man, as they call it in America.

   • 2003 March 21, Evan Thomas, “The 12 Year Itch”, in Newsweek:

     Rice is a "yes man," says one former top government official. "She thinks her job is just to figure out what the president is trying to say and then to say it more articulately."

Derived terms

• yesmanism
• yesmanship

Translations

a person who always agrees with his employer or superior

• Afrikaans: jabroer
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: إِمَّعَة (ʔimmaʕa)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 好好先生 (hou² hou² sin¹ saang¹), 應聲蟲 / 应声虫 (jing³ sing¹ cung⁴)

  Mandarin: 好好先生 (zh) (hǎohǎo xiānshēng, literally “mister yes-yes”), 跟屁蟲 / 跟屁虫 (zh) (gēn pì chóng), 應聲蟲 / 应声虫 (zh) (yìngshēng chóng)

• Czech: poskok (cs) m
• Danish: jasiger (da) c
• Dutch: jaknikker (nl) m, jabroer (nl) m
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• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: jees-mies
• French: béni-oui-oui (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Jasager (de) m
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: יסמן m (yésmen)
• Hindi: चमचा (hi) m (camcā)
• Hungarian: fejbólintó János
• Italian: yes man m
• Japanese: イエスマン (ja) (iesuman)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 아첨군 (acheomgun)
• Latin: assentātor m
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• Macedonian: климогла́вец m (klimoglávec), ами́нџија m (amíndžija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nikkedukke (no) m or f, spyttslikker (no) m (spilt-licker)

• Persian: بله‌قربان‌گو (bale-qorbân-gu)
• Plautdietsch: Jo-brooda m
• Polish: potakiwacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: pau-mandado (pt) m,lambe-botas (pt) m, puxa-saco (pt) m
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• Russian: сикофа́нт (ru) m (sikofánt), подхали́м (ru) m (podxalím), лизоблю́д (ru) m (lizobljúd), подпева́ла (ru) m or f (podpevála)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀слӯшнӣк m

  Roman: pòslūšnīk (sh) m

• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: sacristán de amén
• Swedish: ja-sägare (sv) c, nickedocka c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: evet efendimci (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: אָמן־זאָגער m (omen-zoger, literally “amen-sayer”), צובאָמקער m (tsubomker), באַסאָק m (basok), פּאָטאַקעווער m (potakever), אונטערבאָמקער m (unterbomker)

Anagrams

• Eymans, Maneys, Mayens, Maynes, Meanys, saymen, synema, yamens