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brownnoser

brownnoser is the alternative form of brown noser.

Meaning of brown noser

Noun

brown noser (plural brown nosers)

  1. (idiomatic) One who brownnoses (flatters or humors somebody in an obsequious manner for personal gain); one who sucks up; a bootlicker, dickrider, ass-kisser, sycophant.
    • “Unbelievable. Boimler's cozying up with those brownnosers to get out of trash day? Such a great call.” “More trash for the rest of us. I smell adventure.”2021 September 16, John Cochran, “The Spy Humongous” (4:58 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 2, episode 6, spoken by Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome)
    Synonyms:
    brown-nose

Forms of brownnoser

pluralbrownnosers

Questions about brownnoser

What is brownnoser the alternative form of?
Brownnoser is the alternative form of brown noser.

Words near brownnoser in the dictionary

  1. brownmillerite
  2. brownness
  3. brownnesses
  4. brownnose
  5. brownnosed
  6. brownnoser
  7. brownnosers
  8. brownnoses
  9. brownnosing
  10. brownoid
  11. brownout

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