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Can brown nose be used as a verb? Ex; He brown noses the manager?
Is there any word which has the same meaning as brown nose?
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Can brown nose be used as a verb? Ex; He brown noses the manager?

Yes.


Is there any word which has the same meaning as brown nose?
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Kiss up
Bootlick(er)
Suck up
 

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I don't like "he brown noses" without a hyphen. Is it common?
 

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I think your examples are vulgar. Does brown nose have the same sense of kiss up or boot lick
How to say someone shows affection to someone else to gain advantages without being rude
 

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I think your examples are vulgar. Does brown nose have the same sense of kiss up or boot lick
How to say someone shows affection to someone else to gain advantages without being rude

My examples are vulgar but "brown-nose" isn't? :shock:

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The inspiration for this term is the idea that an obsequious sycophant would be willing to kiss the hindquarters of the person being toadied to. The brown is a reference to the excrement with which the nose of the flatterer would be covered.

But in all seriousness...

Despite the scatological inspiration of the term brown-nose, it is not considered to be very vulgar or offensive. Some people, unaware or unsure of its origin, don't consider it offensive at all, but at worst I would say that it is only mildly offensive. It is definitely slang, though, so may not be appropriate in many circumstances.

Suck up, kiss up, and bootlick aren't vulgar either, whatever the inspiration for them might be. You are after all describing a sycophant, which is not a flattering description by any standard.
 

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How to say someone shows affection to someone else to gain advantages without being rude

I can't think of any flattering way of describing someone who kisses up to curry favours.... it's not considered a positive attribute.
 

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Can brown nose be used as a verb? Ex; He brown noses the manager?
Is there any word which has the same meaning as brown nose?
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Yes. To kiss ass.
 
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