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brown nose; brown noser noun a toady; a sycophant US, 1938 Originally military.- “I know Stanley is the biggest goddam brown-nose in the platoon[.]” — Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, p. 61, 1948
- I encountered far too often there a type that is familiar to anyone who has built time—the organization man of the penitentiary, the yea-sayer, the brown-nose. — James Blake, The Joint, p. 318, 6 November 1962
- You are such a brown-noser. — Clueless, 1995
- I’m sorry you’ve got to eat shit from a hack brownnoser like Krantz[.] — Robert Crais, L.A. Requiem, p. 97, 1999
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