suck-up
noun
ˈsək-ˌəp 
: a person who is ingratiating or fawning
a suck-up to the teacher
Synonyms
- apple-polisher
- bootlicker
- brownnoser
- fawner
- flunky
- flunkey
- flunkie
- lickspittle
- sycophant
- toady
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Word History
First Known Use
1970, in the meaning defined above
- passion vine
- Passion Week
- passional
- passionals
- passionaries
- passionary
- passionate
- passionated
- passionately
- passionateness
- passionatenesses
- passionates
- passionating
- passionato
- passioned
- passionflower
- passionflower family
- passionflowers
- passionful
- passionfulness
- passioning
- Passionist
- passionists
- passionless
- passionlessnesses