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butter up

verbid 2890·updated Jun 3, 2026
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to flatter with the intention of getting something

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Cognitive

Understand72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Responsibility

Unclassified—authoritativetrigger_default_value

Automation

Unclassified—authoritativetrigger_default_value

Variants

5 surface forms
synonym
brown-nose
pasttense
buttered up
presentparticiple
buttering up
thirdpersonsingular
butters up
pastparticiple
buttered up

Framework definitions

2 senses across 2 frameworks
Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
§1
to flatter with the intention of getting something
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
to flatter with the intention of getting something
DR-088 backfill from the verb definition column

Outgoing relationships

term as subject — 0 triples
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This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

term as object — 0 triples
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