suck up

See also: suckup and suck-up

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suck up (third-person singular simple present sucks up, present participle sucking up, simple past and past participle sucked up)

(transitive) To absorb (fluid).
The dry soil sucked up water like a sponge.
(slang, often followed by to) To adulate or flatter (someone) excessively, generally to obtain some personal benefit or favour.
Synonym: brownnose

Jimmy sucked up to the English teacher hoping he would get an A.
(slang) To fellate (someone).

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to absorb fluid

Azerbaijani: hopdurmaq
French: absorber (fr)
German: aufsaugen (de)
Hungarian: felszív (hu), magába szív
Italian: aspirare (it)
Russian: впитывать (ru) impf (vpityvatʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: deoghail
Spanish: absorber (es)
Swedish: suga upp
Telugu: పీల్చు (te) (pīlcu)
Zulu: -munca, -munya

to adulate or flatter excessively

Chinese:
Mandarin: 拍马屁 (zh) (pāimǎpì)
Danish: fedte for
Dutch: slijmen (nl)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: imarrella (fi), nuoleskella (fi), mielistellä (fi)
French: lécher les bottes (fr), cirer les pompes (fr)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
Japanese: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: podlizywać się (pl)
Portuguese: puxar saco
Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: подли́зываться (ru) impf (podlízyvatʹsja), подлиза́ться (ru) pf (podlizátʹsja)
Scots: souk in wi
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: улизивати (ulizivati), шлихтати (šlihtati), увлачити (uvlačiti)

Latin: ulizivati (sh), šlihtati, uvlačiti (sh)
Spanish: dar jabón, dar coba, pastelear (es) (Spain, colloquial)
Swedish: fjäska (sv), smöra (sv), lisma (sv), ställa sig in (hos) (sv)
Thai: please add this translation if you can

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