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brownnoses

brownnoses is the plural of brownnose.

brownnoses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brownnose.

Meaning of brownnose

Noun

brownnose (plural brownnoses)

  1. (figuratively) One who sucks up; a bootlicker or sycophant.
    • A workmate reported the matter, "which is why the worker threatened to beat up the latter," calling him a "brownnose" and threatening to "wipe the floor with him."1997, Ulrich Herbert, Hitler's foreign workers: enforced foreign labor in Germany under the Third Reich, Cambridge University Press, page 126

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Questions about brownnoses

What is brownnoses the plural of?
Brownnoses is the plural of brownnose.

Words near brownnoses in the dictionary

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

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