† curry-faveln.
Obsolete.
a. One who solicits favour by flattery or complaisance.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer
papelard1340
placeboc1395
fawnerc1440
pickthank1460
adulator?a1475
earwigc1475
curry-favel1515
men-pleaser1526
gnatho1533
upcreeperc1540
claw-back1549
curry-favourer1563
man-pleaser1564
claw-poll1569
please-man1570
sycophant1575
curry-favour1577
capper1587
insinuator1598
clawera1603
scrape-shoe1607
suck-fist1611
courtiera1616
foot lickera1616
fleerera1627
wriggler1631
fawn1635
limberham1689
toad-eater1742
tuft-hunter1755
arse-kisser1766
sleeve-creeper1809
lick-spit1822
lickspittle1825
shoe-licker1826
toady1826
toad1831
toader1842
bootlicker1846
bootlick1849
favour-currier1855
lubricator1872
bum-sucker1877
handshaker1884
suck1900
mbongo1911
sucker-up1911
apple-polisher1918
snurge1933
ass-licker1939
brown-nose1939
brown-noser1942
arse-licker1951
ass-kisser1951
greaser1959
suck-hole1966
suck-up1970
bumboy1984
fly-
1515 State Papers II. 15 All the curryfavel, that be next of the deputye is secrete counsayll, dare not..shewe hym the greate jupardye..of his soule.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 211/2 Curryfavell, a flatterar, estrille faueav.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 245 Sometimes a creeper, and a curry fauell with his superiours.
b. (See quot. 1589.)
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > euphemism > using positive synonym
paradiastole1555
curry-favel1589
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. 154 If such moderation of words tend to flattery, or soothing, or excusing, it is by the figure Paradiastole, which therfore nothing improperly we call the Curry-fauell, as when we make the best of a bad thing.
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