Glossary entry

Arabic term or phrase:

محلسة

English translation:

crawling/boot licking/brown nosing

Added to glossary by Mona Helal
Oct 6, 2009 00:47
14 yrs ago
Arabic term

محلسة

Arabic to English Law/Patents Law (general)
رمز لل---- المعفن المملوء رياء ومحلسة لأرباب
Change log

Oct 8, 2009 00:42: Mona Helal Created KOG entry

Oct 8, 2009 00:42: Mona Helal changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/3720">Mona Helal's</a> old entry - "محلسة"" to ""crawling/boot licking/brown nosint""

Proposed translations

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12 mins
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crawling/boot licking

crawling/boot licking
brown nosing
Note from asker:
Thanks
Peer comment(s):

agree dardir : I agree with "boot licking"
8 hrs
thank you dardir
agree yen_yang
13 hrs
thank you yen
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Sycophant is the correct answer; however, bootlicker was a perfect match for the context I was working with. Thanks everybody."
17 mins

hypocrisy , sham

flattery
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1 hr

behaving obsequiosly

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+1
1 hr

flattery/adulation/blandishment/brown nosing

flattery, adulation, blandishment, blarney, brown nosing
Peer comment(s):

agree Ahmed El-Aktash
20 hrs
Many thanks Ahmed
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6 hrs

apple polishing / toadying / flattering

toady : A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.

apple polisher : (slang)
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1 day 12 hrs

brownnosing

An employee is said to be brownnosing when following behind his boss and agrees to whatever is being said and bloats his superior ego by magnifying his trivial acts and subserviently obey any order.
Example sentence:

Bownnosing is the ultimate of showing submissivness and abject self-servititude

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