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brown-nose
verb as in suck up to
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Example Sentences
Presently a brown nose appeared between the house and my hiding place.
Each was coal black except for a V-shaped white mark on the breast and a brown nose.
But the mother, who raised her brown nose suddenly from the cool mold out of which she had been digging lily-bulbs, had seen dogs.
Miss Amber had managed to shove her brown nose in front, with Regulator at her saddle girth.
Clay's dog put up his brown nose for a little attention, and got it.
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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to brown-nose, such as: apple-polish, back-scratch, bootlick, curry favor, fawn on, and flatter.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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