bootlicker

• Nom désignant une personne qui se comporte de manière servile ou obséquieuse envers une personne en position d'autorité, souvent pour obtenir ses faveurs ou son approbation, et qui agit comme si elle n'avait aucune dignité personnelle.

A noun referring to a person who behaves obsequiously or submissively towards someone in authority, often to gain favor or approval, and who acts as if lacking self-respect.

1. Servile flattererC1informal

   A person who behaves obsequiously or flatters someone in authority in order to gain favor or advantage.

   Lèche-bottes

   • The manager's assistant is a notorious bootlicker, always agreeing with everything he says.
   • He was called a bootlicker for constantly praising the boss in meetings.
   • She despises bootlickers who try to get ahead by flattery rather than hard work.

   Synonymesapple polisherass-kisserfawnerflatterergrovelerlackeysycophanttoadytruckleryes-man

   Antonymesdissidenthereticiconoclastindependentinsurgentmaverickmutineernonconformistrebelskeptic