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stroke someone's ego

stroke someone's ego verb: to baselessly compliment someone in order to undeservedly flatter or indulge them.

Verb

stroke someone's ego (third-person singular simple present strokes someone's ego, present participle stroking someone's ego, simple past and past participle stroked someone's ego)

  1. To baselessly compliment someone in order to undeservedly flatter or indulge them.
    • You're a horrible host! You don't care about us at all! You care more about stroking your own ego than giving us anything we'd actually enjoy!2026 March 20, Gooseworx, “hjsakldfhl” (27:25 from the start), in The Amazing Digital Circus, episode 8, spoken by Pomni (Lizzie Freeman)

Forms of stroke someone's ego

third-person singular presentstrokes someone's ego
present participlestroking someone's ego
past participlestroked someone's ego
paststroked someone's ego

Questions about stroke someone's ego

What does stroke someone's ego mean?
Stroke someone's ego means to baselessly compliment someone in order to undeservedly flatter or indulge them.
What part of speech is stroke someone's ego?
Stroke someone's ego is a verb.
What is the past tense of stroke someone's ego?
The past tense of stroke someone's ego is stroked someone's ego.

Words near stroke someone's ego in the dictionary

  1. stroke of work
  2. stroke order
  3. stroke orders
  4. stroke out
  5. stroke play
  6. stroke someone's ego
  7. stroke volume
  8. stroke volumes
  9. strokeable
  10. stroked
  11. stroked out

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