apple polisher

Questions about apple polisher

What is another word for apple polisher?

It depends which apple polisher you mean. In the sense “someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect”, the synonyms are bootlicker, fawner, groveller, groveler, truckler. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of apple polisher?

WordNet records no antonym for apple polisher. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for apple polisher come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for apple polisherAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for apple polisherWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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