suck-up
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- A person who sucks up, or plays up through adulation or flattery or other such devices to win another's favour; a brown-noser.
- 2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 139:
- Dulcie was already holding Lidiaʼs hand, and she didnʼt even know her! What a suck-up.