Englishfawn2
verb
congressmen fawn over him whenever he comes to town |
the most important men in town will come to fawn on me:
be obsequious to, be sycophantic to, be servile to, curry favor with, pay court to, play up to, crawl to, creep to, ingratiate oneself with, dance attendance on, fall over oneself for, kowtow to, toady to, truckle to, bow and scrape before, grovel before, cringe before, abase oneself before;
flatter, praise, sing the praises of, praise to the skies, praise to excess, eulogize;
informal sweet-talk, soft-soap, brown-nose, suck up to, make up to, smarm around, be all over, fall all over, butter up, lick someone's boots, rub up the right way, lay it on thick, lay it on with a trowel;
Australian, New Zealand, informal smoodge to;
British, vulgar slang kiss someone's arse;
North American, vulgar slang kiss someone's ass.