podlizać się — meaning in English

English meaning

• bootlick verb To try to win someone's approval by being overly obedient and flattering.
• wangle verb To get something by being cunning or tricking people.

Senses

podlizać się is used for these senses in English:

• bootlick (transitive) To seek favor from by fawning, servile behavior.
• lickspittle (transitive, and, intransitive) To play the toady; take the role of a lickspittle to please (someone).
• suck up (slang, often followed by to) To adulate or flatter (someone) excessively, generally to obtain some personal benefit or favour.
• wangle (intransitive) To achieve through contrivance or cajolery.

bootlick — full definition

1. verb To try to win someone's approval by being overly obedient and flattering.
2. verb To behave in a fawning, servile way towards someone.

wangle — full definition

1. verb To get something by being cunning or tricking people.
2. verb To alter records dishonestly.
3. verb To manage to get or arrange something through clever persuasion or scheming.

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