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#207454 - 10/01/12 12:16 AM Whats the word??
stranger
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I'v heard this word before.... but i cant remember what it is!... and i cant seem to find it anywhere.
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#207455 - 10/01/12 04:36 AM
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#207463 - 10/01/12 10:29 AM
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#207468 - 10/01/12 11:49 AM
old hand
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Perhaps you are looking for "claquer" - literally someone who is hired to applaud a performance, however bad or good it is. The meaning can easily be widened to include a group of sycophants, toadies, flatterers, etc._________________________
I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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#207470 - 10/01/12 12:34 PM
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minions..
toady
toadeater
tufthunter (Brit.)
snurge (Brit.)
lickspittle
minion
lackey
limberham (fig.)
backslapper
clawback (obs.)
apple-polisher
yes-man
stooge
myrmidon
follower
pushover
bootlicker
brownnoser
groveler
flatterer
kowtower
fawner
flatterer
flunky
groupie(s)
*sycophant
truckler
ass-kisser
arse-licker (Brit.)
suck-up
doormat
doter
fawner
henchman
hanger-on
trencherman
edit:
gnatho
shammes
(groups)
mob
posse
entourage
retainers
retinue
*claque
(adjs)
gnathonic
obsequious (and synonyms)
unctuous
ingratiating
Edited by tsuwm (10/01/12 12:51 PM)
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#207473 - 10/01/12 06:49 PM
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#207477 - 10/01/12 11:35 PM
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I wish to create (or find) a word that delimits the vile collaboration of professional social in-groups to the abject detriment of the rest of us.
You know, vile people like vile lawyers, vile doctors, and vile Indian chiefs.
Those vile folk have Unions without Unions.
Hmm... maybe some variant of sycophant or claque or mutual masturbation will suffice.
Edited by jenny jenny (10/02/12 12:09 AM)
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#207479 - 10/02/12 08:06 AM
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#207480 - 10/02/12 10:06 AM
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even boosters and fans have gotten bad reps!
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#207481 - 10/02/12 10:19 AM
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#207482 - 10/02/12 10:59 AM
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#207487 - 10/02/12 06:54 PM
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#207488 - 10/02/12 10:20 PM
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#207490 - 10/03/12 10:13 AM
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We can Twitter your forgotten word. It will go Internet viral.
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#207529 - 10/06/12 04:03 AM
stranger
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#207534 - 10/06/12 11:38 AM
addict
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Me? I like "claque". As a condition that would be "claqueness".
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#207536 - 10/06/12 02:30 PM
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(adjs)
gnathonic
obsequious (and synonyms)
unctuous
ingratiating
so, from thesaurus.com
obsequious
Definition: groveling, submissive
Synonyms: abject, beggarly, brownnosing, complacent, compliable, compliant, cringing, crouching, deferential, enslaved, fawning, flattering, ingratiating, kowtowing, menial, obeisant, oily, parasitic, parasitical, prostrate, respectful, servile, slavish, sneaking, sniveling, spineless, stipendiary, subject, submissive, subordinate, subservient, toadying, unctuous
(also, from fawning)
adulatory, bootlicking, bowing, cowering, crawling, humble, mealy-mouthed, scraping
and, from me:
meeching
oleaginous
smarmy [crossthreading!]
sequacious
sycophantic, sycophantical, sycophantish
FYI
meeching
Now regional (chiefly New England)
skulking, furtive; mean, cheap, contemptible; poor, obsequious
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#207540 - 10/06/12 03:28 PM
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#207548 - 10/06/12 11:56 PM
old hand
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... I mean when the stomach has sucessfully made the trip to iceland who in their right minds will compete with such perfection?
PS: Am I on the wrong thread? I think I'm on the wrong board! This isn't weight watchers anonymous? Shudda taken the left toin for that one! Sorry!
Edited by Avy (10/07/12 01:12 AM)
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#207590 - 10/10/12 12:53 PM
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Edited by BranShea (10/10/12 01:07 PM)
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#207603 - 10/11/12 07:07 AM
Pooh-Bah
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Not one word but... 'Extreme Patriotism' has this negative behaviour!
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#207616 - 10/11/12 02:46 PM
old hand
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#207653 - 10/14/12 07:58 AM
Pooh-Bah
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A very British word. Of course I had heard the oath 'by jingo' but had not connected it. And its link to the French word 'Chauvinism'
.... that of malice to a particular group.
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#208090 - 11/23/12 12:08 PM
old hand
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I had posted this a while ago. Well I found the word I was looking for. I thought I would share it. The quote is "To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. Seneca"
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#208092 - 11/23/12 07:24 PM
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#208093 - 11/23/12 09:10 PM
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We English will readily admit that your word has more bite.
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#208094 - 11/24/12 04:19 AM
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#208187 - 12/01/12 12:31 AM
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