bicker, cozy up, charmer, suck up to, obsequiously, rack up, ingratiate,

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But if Ms. Cericola was content with how quickly she ended the debate, Google and other technology companies are not. They know they are the uninvited guests at social gatherings everywhere, and they want to ingratiate themselves with the hosts by ...

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You can also throw venture capital into this pile. Going into venture capital straight out of school is a big mistake because entrepreneurs start sucking up to you and ask you stuff you know nothing about — like how to run a company.



Apple and Google have turned smartphone market on its head
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(Nhat V. Meyer/San Jose Mercury News/MCT) In the smartphone business, Google's Android partners are racking up the sales and Apple is sucking up the profits ...


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bicker

(bĭk'ər)
intr.v., -ered, -er·ing, -ers.

1. To engage in a petty, bad-tempered quarrel; squabble. See synonyms at argue.
2. To flicker; quiver: "and bicker like a flame" (Robert Browning).

n.
A petty quarrel; a squabble.

[Middle English bikeren, to attack.]

bickerer bick'er·er n.

ingratiate[in・gra・ti・ate]

• 発音記号[ingréiʃièit]

(ĭn-grā'shē-āt')
tr.v., -at·ed, -at·ing, -ates.
To bring (oneself, for example) into the favor or good graces of another, especially by deliberate effort: She quickly sought to ingratiate herself with the new administration.

[Perhaps from Italian ingraziare, from in grazia, into favor, from Latin in grātiam : in, in; see in-² + grātiam, accusative of grātia, favor (from grātus, pleasing).]

ingratiation in·gra'ti·a'tion n.
ingratiatory in·gra'ti·a·to'ry (-shē-ə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē) adj.

[動](他)((〜 -self))((けなして))（人に）取り入る, （…の）きげんを取る, 気に入られるようにする((with ...))

He ingratiated himself with his employer.
雇い主に取り入った.

in・grà・ti・á・tion

[名]

charmer	(noun) Someone with an assured and ingratiating manner.
Synonyms:	smoothie, sweet talker
Usage:	Joseph was such a charmer that he was able to convince Hannah to give him the last of her mother's homemade cookies. noun a person with an attractive and engaging personality, typically one who uses this to impress or manipulate others. "Joe, who had been such a charmer, had become irritable and lazy" Urban Dictionary: Charmer www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Charmer Charmer. a real sauve guy who knows how to talk to and get the ladies. sometimes known as a smooth pimped out player from the streets who knows how to get ...

cozyの変化形

cozies (複数形) • cozies (三人称単数現在)

[形]（-zi・er, -zi・est）

1 〈家・場所などが〉居ごこちのよい, 気持ちのよい；〈人が〉おもいやりのある；〈雰囲気などが〉くつろいだ, 和気あいあいとした；((軽蔑))ひとりよがりの.

2 （…と）八百長の, つるんだ, なあなあの((with ...))

cozy ties ［relations］
癒着

Their top men are too cozy with industry.
上層部が企業となれあいになりすぎている.

3 楽な, 都合のよい, 便利な.

━━[名]

1 （ティーポットなどの）保温カバー(tea cozy).

2 （天蓋(てんがい)つきの）2人掛けいす.

━━[動](自)((米略式))［cozy up to A］〈Aに〉取り入る, と仲良くする.

━━(他)…をなだめる, なぐさめる((along)).

［スコットランド語←スカンジナビア語. 例えばノルウェー語koselig （kose楽します＋sig自らを＝ひとりよがりの）］

-zi・ly

[副]

-zi・ness

[名]

cozy up

Try to get on friendly or intimate terms, ingratiate oneself. For example, That new woman is always cozying up to one or another club member so she'll be asked to join. [Mid-1900s]


rack up

Accumulate or score, as in Last night's episode of that new sitcom racked up at least fifteen points in the ratings. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]

suck up to

Behave obsequiously towards, ingratiate oneself with, as in Now that he's the boss they're all sucking up to him, hoping to get big raises. [Vulgar slang; mid-1800s]


suck-up
(sŭk'ŭp')
n. Informal
A person who flatters or defers to others obsequiously; a sycophant.

obsequious[ob・se・qui・ous]

• 発音記号[əbsíːkwiəs]

[形]〈態度などが〉こびへつらいを示す, おもねる

an obsequious smile
追従笑い.

ob・se・qui・ous・ly

[副]

ob・se・qui・ous・ness

[名]
syc·o·phant (sĭk'ə-fənt, sī'kə-)
n.
A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people.

[Latin sȳcophanta, informer, slanderer, from Greek sūkophantēs, informer, from sūkon phainein, to show a fig (probably originally said of denouncers of theft or exportation of figs) : sūkon, fig + phainein, to show.]

sycophantic syc'o·phan'tic (-făn'tĭk) or syc'o·phan'ti·cal (-tĭ-kəl) adj.
sycophantically syc'o·phan'ti·cal·ly adv.