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Brownnose vs Blueblood - What's the difference?

brownnose | blueblood |

As nouns the difference between brownnose and blueblood

is that brownnose is (idiomatic) one who brownnoses; one who sucks up; a bootlicker, ass-kisser, sycophant while blueblood is .

As a verb brownnose

is to flatter someone (especially a superior) in an obsequious manner, and to support their every opinion.

brownnose

English

Noun

  • (idiomatic) One who brownnoses; one who sucks up; a bootlicker, ass-kisser, sycophant.
  • * 1997 Ulrich Herbert, Hitler's foreign workers: enforced foreign labor in Germany under the Third Reich, Cambridge University Press, p126
    • 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."
  • * 2007 Felicity Young, An Easeful Death, Fremantle Press, p13
    • 'I know, he's a natural brownnose . I guess he does have some talents.'
  • * 2010 Joseph Morse, Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller,'' p46
    • You don't have to be such a brownnose , at least not to me.

    Verb

    (brownnos)
  • To flatter someone (especially a superior) in an obsequious manner, and to support their every opinion

    • Related terms

    * brownnoser, brown noser, brown-noser

    blueblood

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)