Thesaurus:suck up

Thesaurus

suck up

English

Verb

Sense: to behave in a servile manner

Synonyms

• apple-polish (US)
• bootlick
• bow and scrape
• brownnose
• butter up
• dickride (vulgar)
• fawn
• fellate (figurative, vulgar)
• flannel
• kiss someone's ass (idiomatic, vulgar)
• kiss someone's ring (idiomatic)
• kiss up
• kowtow (figurative)
• lick someone's ass (idiomatic, vulgar)
• lick someone's balls (idiomatic, vulgar)
• suck up
• toady

Antonyms

• answer back
• argue
• bully
• disobey    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dominate
• domineer
• persevere    [⇒ thesaurus]
• sass (US)
• stand one's ground
• talk back

Hypernyms

• adulate
• flatter
• obey    [⇒ thesaurus]
• schmooze

See also

• Thesaurus:sycophant
• Thesaurus:sycophantic

Further reading

• “886. servility” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “suck up” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.