Thesaurus:suck up

Thesaurus:suck up

THESAURUS

suck up

English

Synonyms

• apple-polish (US)

• bootlick

• bow and scrape

• brownnose

• butter up

• dickride (vulgar)

• fawn

• fellate (figurative, vulgar)

• flannel

• kiss someone's ass (idiomatic, vulgar)

• kiss someone's ring (idiomatic)

• kiss up

• kowtow (figurative)

• lick someone's ass (idiomatic, vulgar)

• lick someone's balls (idiomatic, vulgar)

• suck up

• toady

Antonyms

• answer back

• argue

• bully

• disobey    [WS]

• dominate

• domineer

• persevere    [WS]

• sass (US)

• stand one's ground

• talk back

Hypernyms

• adulate

• flatter

• obey    [WS]

• schmooze

See also

• Thesaurus:sycophant
• Thesaurus:sycophantic

Further reading

• “886. servility” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “suck up” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.