brown-nose

verb [I]

/ˈbrɑʊn.nəʊz/

/-noʊz/ informal

Definition

› to try too hard to please someone, especially someone in a position of authority, in a way that other people find unpleasant: The rest of the class were sick of watching him brown-nose.Praising insincerely or too eagerly

(Definition of brown-nose verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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