noser

brown-noser

noun One who seeks out the approval, attention, and/or support of others, especially superiors, through abject subservience, flattery, or fawning. Tim is such an obvious brown-noser, always complementing the boss on her ideas and saying yes to anything she suggests.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

brown-nose

1. and brownie and brown-noser n. a sycophant; one who flatters for self-serving motives. You are just a plain old brown-nose. Will some brown-noser please try to get the teacher to put off the test?
2. tv. & in. to curry favor with someone; to be a sycophant. Don keeps brown-nosing, and the professor pretends not to notice.

brown-noser

verb
See brown-nose
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • brown-noser
  • egg-sucker
  • suck up to
  • suck up to (one)
  • suck up to someone
  • toady (up) to (one)
  • toady to
  • lickers
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Results from a study done by Tanner, Noser, and Langford (2003) suggest that factors such as age and gender do not play a significant part in undergraduate business students' perceptions of online learning.
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Noser is an Associate Professor of Economics at Western Kentucky University.
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We find that there is a definite growth in the number of spectators and that is a tribute to the ever-increasing standard of players," Gabriela Noser Katiela, Event and Tournament Director, told Gulf News.
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In high school he was voted the "biggest brown noser," according to (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/paul-ryan-brown-noser-the-wikipedia-edit-wars-begin-for-romneys-running-mate/261022/) The Atlantic (he was also voted Prom King).
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"Why do you want to be friends with her?" "I signed you up to be my partner for the recital audition." "Stop raising your hand so much in class, Brown Noser!" Real friends don't tell you who to hang out with, make decisions for you or dictate how you should (or shouldn't) conduct yourself.
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AS AN aspiring thruster, the brown noser wants to play office politics, but mistakes the concept of impressing the boss with being desperate to please and compliment the boss in any way possible.
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On the reverse side, those persons choosing to waltz in the alleyway of neutrality are often given the names of Uncle Tom, brown noser, Oreo, whigger, acquessor or wannabe.
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In mining, a cold noser is the same as a wildcatter, a person or company devoted to exploration in unlikely areas [Dictionary of Mining, Minerals and Related Terms, US Bureau of Mines, 1996].
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