brown-nose

1. 1.

   flatter with the intention of getting something

   Synonymsbutter up

   Broaderflatter

Questions about brown-nose

What does brown-nose mean?

brown-nose means "flatter with the intention of getting something".

How many syllables are in brown-nose?

brown-nose has 2 syllables: brown--nose. The stress falls on "nose".

What is another word for brown-nose?

Close synonyms include butter up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brown-nose a common word?

brown-nose is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.