Canadian English Meaning of buttering up
Butter up
Other Canadian English words related to Butter up
- Butter
- endearment
- fawning
- Soft soap
- Sweet talk
- Sycophancy
- acclaim
- adulation
- allure
- applause
- Cajolery
- charming
- inducement
- exhortation
- flannel
- flattery
- Incense
- Ingratiation
- Praise
- Toffee
- toadying
- beguilement
- Blandishment
- blarney
- Brainwashing
- Cajolery
- charm
- coaxing
- commendation
- courting
- entreaty
- influential
- Lobbying
- overpraise
- Prompting
- romancing
- smarm
- tempting
- wheedling
- courting
- Massage
- overpersuasion
- pressuring
- swaying
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Definitions and Meaning of buttering up in English
buttering up
to charm or beguile with lavish flattery or praise
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Butter up
to charm or beguile with lavish flattery or praise
Butter,endearment,fawning,Soft soap,Sweet talk,Sycophancy,acclaim,adulation,allure,applause
depreciation,detraction,disparagement,bad-mouthing,belittling,put down
buttered up => Buttered up, butted in => butted in, butted heads => Butted heads, butted (on or against) => butted (on or against), butt heads => headbutt,