brownnose

plural brownnoses

1. alternativeAlternative form of brown-nose.

   You don't have to be such a brownnose, at least not to me.

   2010, Joseph Morse, Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller,, page 46

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   A workmate reported the matter, "which is why the worker threatened to beat up the latter," calling him a "brownnose" and threatening to "wipe the floor with him."

   1997, Ulrich Herbert, Hitler's foreign workers: enforced foreign labor in Germany under the Third Reich, Cambridge University Press, page 126

   'I know, he's a natural brownnose. I guess he does have some talents.'

   2007, Felicity Young, An Easeful Death, Fremantle Press, page 13

present singular third person brownnoses · participle present brownnosing · participle past brownnosed · past brownnosed

1. alternativeAlternative form of brown-nose.