sycophant

noun · verbC2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

sycophants

1.
One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
Đồng nghĩa: ass-kisser, brown noser, suck-up, yes man
2.
One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
Đồng nghĩa: parasite, flunky, lackey
3.
(obsolete)An informer; a talebearer.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

sycophants

V_ing/Gerund

sycophanting

V_ed/pp

sycophanted

1.
(obsolete, transitive)To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
2.
(rare, transitive)To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

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Đồng nghĩa

ass-kisserbrown nosersuck-upyes manparasite flunky lackeysuck up

Cùng gốc / liên quan

sycophantize sycophantly sycophantry sycophancy sycophantic sycophantish sycophantism

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro 1537. From Latin sȳcophanta (informer, trickster), from Ancient Greek συκοφάντης, itself from σῦκον (fig) + φαίνω (to show, demonstrate). The gesture of "showing the fig" was a vulgar one, which was made by sticking the thumb between two fingers, a display which vaguely resembles a fig, which is itself symbolic of a σῦκον, which also meant vulva.