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 Definitions of butter up  

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Definition of 'butter up' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (verb) butter up, brown-nose
flatter with the intention of getting something


Definition of 'butter up' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (verb) butter up
to flatter
He buttered up the boss hoping to get a raise.


Translation of 'butter up' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: to flatter (someone) usually because one wants him to do something for one.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: flikflooi, pamperlang Arabic flag Arabic: يُداهِن، يَتَمَلَّق Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: подмазвам се
Brazilian flag Brazilian: amaciar Czech flag Czech: lichotit German flag German: jemandem schmeicheln
Danish flag Danish: smigre Greek flag Greek: καλοπιάνω με κολακείες Spanish flag Spanish: dar coba a
Estonian flag Estonian: meelitama Farsi flag Farsi: چاپلوسی کردن؛ تملق گفتن Finnish flag Finnish: voidella jotakuta
French flag French: passer de la pommadeà Hebrew flag Hebrew: לְהַחֲנִיף Hindi flag Hindi: कुछ करने के लिए खुशामद कर
Croatian flag Croatian: laskati Hungarian flag Hungarian: hízeleg Indonesian flag Indonesian: menyanjung, menjilat
Icelandic flag Icelandic: skjalla Italian flag Italian: adulare Japanese flag Japanese: おべっかを言う
Korean flag Korean: 알랑거리다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: pataikauti,įsiteikti Latvian flag Latvian: glaimot
Malay flag Malay: menyanjung-nyanjung Dutch flag Dutch: vleien Norwegian flag Norwegian: blidgjøre, smigre; smøre
Polish flag Polish: schlebiać Persian flag Persian: چاپلوسی کردن؛ تملق گفتن Pashto flag Pashto: چاپلوسی کول
Portuguese flag Portuguese: engraxar Romanian flag Romanian: a lin­guşi Russian flag Russian: грубо льстить
Slovak flag Slovak: lichotiť Slovenian flag Slovenian: dobrikati se Serbian flag Serbian: laskati
Swedish flag Swedish: smickra, fjäska för Thai flag Thai: ประจบ Turkish flag Turkish: dalkavukluk yapmak
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 討好 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: лестити Urdu flag Urdu: مکھن لگانا ، چاپلوسی یا خ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: bợ đỡ Chinese flag Chinese: 讨好

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