Definition of a brown-noser

brown-noser    

noun

• a person who adopts an overtly friendly attitude towards those in authority in hopes of gaining a more favorable position in the workplace. A person who performs solely for the approval of a boss or bosses.

  She's such a brown-noser.

  I hate teacher's pets. They're such brown-nosers.

  • See more words with the same meaning: miscellaneous insults (list of).

  Last edited on Apr 20 2013. Submitted by Richard J. from Washington, USA on Nov 13 2002.

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Other terms relating to 'miscellaneous insults (list of)':
flaky	Definitions include: in the manner of a flake, i.e. unreliable.
pr*ck tease	Definitions include: a person who gets a male excited by the high probability of later sex, but who has no intention of having sex with said male.
tea bag	Definitions include: to place one's scrotum in another person's mouth as a sexual practice.
blivet	Definitions include: less common spelling of blivit.
flakey	Definitions include: Misspelling of flaky.
poo-poo on you	Definitions include: general insult.
hoss	Definitions include: to annoy someone.
tight-*ss	Definitions include: a stingy person.
b*tch	Definitions include: An acronym has been invented for the term, but long after the term entered use: "Beautiful Intellectuals That Cause Hard-ons."
screw	Definitions include: to take advantage of.
word up to your mother	Definitions include: an insult to one.
stiff	Definitions include: to not leave a gratuity.
chach	Definitions include: a person who thinks he's a lot cooler than he really is.
television bum	Definitions include: a person without cable television.
popper	Definitions include: someone who pretends to be someone they're not, usually in dress and speech; "poseur"; "wannabe"; "fake".
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Other terms relating to 'brown':
boneless brown trout	Definitions include: feces.
brown	Definitions include: black tar heroin.
brown bag it	Definitions include: When sleeping with someone so hideous, you have to put a brown paper bag over their head to hide their face.
brown bread	Definitions include: rhyming slang for "dead".
brown-cap	Definitions include: to need to defecate badly.
brown chicken brown cow	Definitions include: a vocal representation of bass riffs made popular in 1970's funk, and subsequently associated with porn from the same era.
browned off	Definitions include: annoyed.
brown eye	Definitions include: the anus.
brown noise	Definitions include: an alleged note that, when played, makes everyone who hears it lose bowel control.
brown nose	Definitions include: to fawn over a superior; "suck up".
brown spider	Definitions include: anus.
brown star	Definitions include: anus.
brown sugar	Definitions include: a woman considered wife material.
brown trout	Definitions include: a turd in the toilet.
Charlied Brown'd	Definitions include: The deceptive actions of a woman, that continually work on a particular male. Compare with [(black widow syndrome)]
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Other terms relating to 'nose':
brown nose	Definitions include: to fawn over a superior; "suck up".
get up (one's) nose	Definitions include: to annoy or irritate someone
hard-nosed	Definitions include: tough.
have a nose	Definitions include: to have a look
keep (one's) nose to the grindstone	Definitions include: See nose to the grindstone.
look down (one's) nose at	Definitions include: to act superior.
nose about	Definitions include: to look around; investigate.
nose around	Definitions include: to look around; investigate.
nose-bleeds	Definitions include: seats in a venue far from the stage.
nosebleeds, the	Definitions include: seats that are high up in a venue, away from the central attraction.
nose candy	Definitions include: cocaine.
nosedive	Definitions include: to fail.
nose job	Definitions include: cosmetic surgery on the nose.
nose to the grindstone	Definitions include: a metaphorical position which implies hard work.
pay through the nose	Definitions include: to pay too much money.
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