huggeryn.
/ˈhʌɡəri/ The action or practice of hugging; esp. the practice of courting an attorney, etc. with the view of obtaining professional employment.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun]
fawninga1350
adulationc1400
papelardya1425
papelardrya1500
captation1523
clawing1548
insinuation1553
curry-favour1581
man-pleasing1588
courting1607
men-pleasing1615
supparasitation1620
sycophantizing1640
assiduity1641
ingratiating1642
licking1648
man-pleasance1656
sycophancy1657
fawnery1661
sycophantrya1677
nutting1789
tuft-hunting1789
cultivation1793
huggery1804
ingratiation1815
sycophantism1821
lickspittling1839
toadyship1839
toadyism1840
bootlicking1849
toadying1863
arse-licking1912
lickspittle1914
apple-polishing1926
pot-licking1929
brown-nosing1934
ass-kissing1936
arse-kissing1937
ass-licking1946
sucking-up1946
bum-sucking1949
love bomb1975
love-bombing1976
1804 L. T. Rede Ess. Exam. Laws Eng. (ed. 2) I. 65 The barrier [of etiquette] is now removed by the eagerness of barristers to procure business by flattering and courting attornies who have the distribution of it—this is distinguished by the curious appellation of huggery.
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 22 511 With the most ludicrous exultation and self-huggery.
1854 Fraser's Mag. 50 269 Though huggery and undue familiarity with attorneys are forbidden by the etiquette of the Bar, yet there is no canon of the profession against huggery of parliamentary agents.
a1861 Ld. Campbell Life (1881) I. 249 We lived together very amicably, notwithstanding a few jealousies and rumours of huggery.
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