sycophant

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Definition von sycophant im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

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"A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard." (Billy Wilder).

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Definition von sycophant im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

One who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another

One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential

a servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence

{v} to flatter

{n} a flatterer, a parasite

To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously

a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

An informer; a talebearer

To inform against; hence, to calumniate

To play the sycophant

A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men

{i} one who attempts to gain favor by flattering others

disapproval A sycophant is a person who behaves in a sycophantic way. a dictator surrounded by sycophants, frightened to tell him what he may not like. someone who praises powerful people too much because they want to get something from them - used in order to show disapproval (sycophanta , from sykophantes, from sykon + phainein )

arse-kisser

Relevante Übersetzungen

A sycophant

flibbergib

a sycophant

suck

sycophantically

Someone who is acting like a sycophant

sycophantically

obsequiously, fawningly, flatteringly, while groveling to obtain favor

sycophants

plural of sycophant

Silbentrennung

sy·co·phant

Synonyme

ass-kisser, brown noser, suck up, yes man, parasite, flunky, lackey, adulator, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlicker, brownnoser, doormat, fan, fawner

Etymologie

[ -f&nt also -"fant ] (noun.) 1575. First attested in 1537. From Latin sȳcophanta (“informer, trickster”) from Ancient Greek συκοφάντης (sukophantēs), itself from σῦκον (sukon, “fig”) + φαίνω (phainō, “I show, demonstrate”). The gesture of "showing the fig" was a vulgar one, which was made by sticking the thumb between two fingers, a display which vaguely resembles a fig, which is itself symbolic of a (sykon 'vagina' also meant vulva). The story behind this etymology is that politicians in ancient Greece steered clear of displaying that vulgar gesture, but urged their followers sub rosa to taunt their opponents by using it.