podlizać się — meaning in English

English meaning

• bootlick verb To seek favor from by fawning, servile behavior.
• wangle verb To obtain through deceitful or manipulative methods.

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 seek favor from by fawning, servile behavior.
2. verb To engage in fawning, servile behavior.

wangle — full definition

1. verb To obtain through deceitful or manipulative methods.
2. verb To falsify, as records.
3. verb To achieve through contrivance or cajolery.

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