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brownnose englanniksi

1. puhekieltä One who brownnoses; one who suck up|sucks up; a bootlicker, ass-kisser, sycophant.

2. 1997 Ulrich Herbert, Hitlers foreign workers: enforced foreign labor in Germany under the Third Reich,'' Cambridge University Press, p126

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."

3. 2007 Felicity Young, An Easeful Death, Fremantle Press, p13

'I know, he's a natural brownnose. I guess he does have some talents.'

4. 2010 Joseph Morse, Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller,'' p46

You don't have to be such a brownnose, at least not to me.

5. To flatter someone (especially a superior) in an obsequious manner, and to support their every opinion.

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