What is the meaning of "brown noser"?
Politicians, film stars and games developers are usually surrounded by brown nosers. A "brown noser" is a sycophant, someone who flatters an individual for personal reasons. He is willing to do anything to get what he wants. Why is a sycophant called a "brown noser"? Such an individual stoops so low that he often rubs his nose in the dirt - and in the process gets his nose brown! Here are a few examples.
* Morpheus that brown noser gave hi tec a bottle of wine on his birthday.
* Morpheus, you are a plain old brown noser.
* The teacher knew that the students were trying to brown nose him.
* All of the AH customer base knew that Morpheus was a brown noser, the only person that didn't know was Morpheus himself.
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