suck up
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suck up
verb sucks up · sucking up · sucked up
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To absorb (fluid).
The dry soil sucked up water like a sponge.
Similar: apple-polish, bootlick, bow and scrape, brown-nose, butter up, dickride, duchess, fawn, fawn over, fellate, flannel, honey around
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To adulate or flatter (someone) excessively, generally to obtain some personal benefit or favour.
Jimmy sucked up to the English teacher hoping he would get an A.
Similar: brown-nose, butter up, kiss up
- To fellate (someone).
Opposite: answer back, argue, bully, disobey, dominate, domineer, persevere, sass, stand one's ground, talk back
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verb
Opposite: answer back, argue, bully, disobey, dominate, domineer, persevere, sass, stand one's ground, talk back
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verb to absorb fluid
| Español | absorber |
|---|---|
| Français | absorber |
| Deutsch | aufsaugen |
| Italiano | aspirare |
| Русский | впитывать vpityvatʹ |
verb to adulate or flatter excessively
| Español | dar jabón, dar coba, pastelear, lambonear, lambisconear, lambisquear |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 拍马屁 pāimǎpì |
| Português | puxar saco |
| Français | lécher les bottes, cirer les pompes |
| Deutsch | einschleimen |
| Română | gudura, linguși |
| Русский | подли́зываться podlízyvatʹsja, подлиза́ться podlizátʹsja |
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