verb
- To compliment excessively and ingratiatingly: adulate, blandish, flatter, honey, slaver. Informal soft-soap, sweet-talk. See praise/blame.
butter up
| Thesaurus: butter up |
| Idioms: butter up |
Excessively praise or flatter someone, usually to gain a favor. For example, If you butter up Dad, he'll let you borrow the car. This term transfers the oily, unctuous quality of butter to lavish praise. [c. 1700]
| WordNet: butter up |
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The verb has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
flatter with the intention of getting something
Synonym: brown-nose
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