butter up

Questions about butter up

What is another word for butter up?

It depends which butter up you mean. In the sense “flatter with the intention of getting something”, the synonyms are brown-nose. Across all 1 sense there are 1 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 butter up?

WordNet records no antonym for butter up. 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 butter up 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.

Other views of butter up

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