brown ankles noun an utter sycophant NEWZEALAND An ordinary sycophant is a BROWN NOSE
The Prisoner’s Code: I can’t crawl to screws (cops, prison officers, etc) anyone who does is a “Nark” or has “brown ankles”. — Salient, p. 6, 12 July 1976
— Harry Orsman, ADictionaryofModernNewZealandSlang, p. 20, 1999