adulatorn.
/ˈadjᵿleɪtə/, /ˈadʒᵿleɪtə/, U.S. /ˈædʒəˌleɪdər/, /ˈædjəˌleɪdər/ A person who offers adulation; (originally) one who flatters obsequiously or sycophantically; (now usually) one who admires and praises uncritically or excessively.
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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] > 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
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?a1475 (?a1425) in tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1882) VIII. App. 489 (MED) The kynge, movede by the cownsayle of adulators.
a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. C.i Maister adulator And doctour assentator And blandior blandiris..folowe your desyres And so they blere your eye.
1632 W. Colman Dance Machabre ccxix. 57 Then you the witnesse of his youthfull folly, Base Adulators, and Associates He blames.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Adulator, a Flatterer, a fawning Fellow, a Claw-back.
1779 J. Sullivan in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) II. 367 Could you have believed that those Adulators..would become your bitter enemies?
1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism vi. 259 Constantine..by his adulators styled Chief bishop of the Church.
1892 Black & White 12 Mar. 327/2 His adulators of yesterday are prepared to turn and rend him.
1916 Times 25 Apr. 6 The exhibition touches every point of interest connected with Shakespeare—..his sources, his contemporary adulators, and..the Baconian heresy.
1999 Trouble & Strife (Nexis) Summer 11 There is a kind and degree of personal adulation which, in my view anyway, corrupts both the adulator and the object of adulation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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