Vocab Bloom Hub

cotton up

/ˈkɑː.tən ʌp/

翻译: 短语动词,指试图与人交朋友或博取信任,常带有奉承或过分亲昵的意味。

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词语关系

verb

/ˈkɑː.tən ʌp/C2formalamerican
  • zh短语动词,指试图与人交朋友或博取信任,常带有奉承或过分亲昵的意味。

A phrasal verb meaning to try to become friendly or ingratiate oneself with someone, often in a sycophantic or overly familiar manner.

不可数 · 不及物 · 短语动词,不可分

  1. Befriend or ingratiateinformalamerican

    To try to become friendly with someone, often for personal gain or to gain favor.

    zh讨好

    • He tried to cotton up to the boss to get a promotion.
    • She's always cottoning up to the popular kids at school.
    • They cottoned up to the new neighbors to borrow their tools.

    同义词brown-nosebutter upcourtcultivatecurry favorfawnsuck uptoady

词形
  • cottoned up past participle
  • cottoned up past simple
  • cottoning up present participle
  • cottons up third person singular

基本动词cotton

Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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