intransitive. To affect a servile fondness; to court favour or notice by an abject demeanour. Const. on, upon (a person, his looks, etc.).
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| 释义 | the mind > emotion > humility > servility > be servile [verb (intransitive)] (30) fawnc1325 intransitive. To affect a servile fondness; to court favour or notice by an abject demeanour. Const. on, upon (a person, his looks, etc.). crouch1528 To bow or bend humbly or servilely; to cringe submissively or fawningly. Chiefly figurative. jouk1573 intransitive. To bend the body adroitly (without any notion of dodging). figurative. To cringe, fawn; to dissemble. crawl1576 transferred. To be all ‘alive’ with crawling things; also figurative. creep1581 figurative (of persons and things). To move timidly or diffidently; to proceed humbly, abjectly, or servilely, to cringe; to move on a low level… spaniel1599 intransitive (also with it). To act like a spaniel; to be meanly submissive or subservient. grovel1605 figurative. spanielize1641 intransitive (also with it). To act like a spaniel; to be submissive or fawning. cringec1660 intransitive. figurative. To behave obsequiously or submissively; to show servile deference to a person. to lick the ground1667 transitive. Frequent in phrases expressive of actions referred to allusively or figuratively, as to lick one's fingers, to lick one's lips, an… truckle1680 figurative. To submit from an unworthy motive; to yield meanly or obsequiously; to act with servility. Const. down, to a person, for an object. to kiss (a person's) arse, behind, bum1705 Phrases. to kiss (a person's) arse, behind, bum: to behave obsequiously towards (a person). As imperative, esp. in kiss my arse: a coarse rejoinder… toad-eat1766 transitive. To flatter, fawn upon (a person); to toady. Also intransitive. snool1786 intransitive. To submit tamely; to cringe; to crawl meekly or humbly. to eat (any one's) toads1788 In various figurative and proverbial uses. to eat (any one's) toads, to be a mean dependant, to toady (see toad-eater, n.). toad under a harrow… kowtow1826 figurative. To act in an obsequious manner. sidle1828 English regional (chiefly northern and midlands). intransitive. To attend a person in an obsequious or coaxing manner. Frequently with about. Obsolete… toady1861 intransitive. To play the servile dependant; to pay deference from interested motives. Const. to. to knock head1876 †to knock heads with: to congregate thickly or associate closely with (obsolete). to knock one's head against: to strike with one's head; figurative… ass-lick1937 intransitive. To curry favour; to be obsequious. Subcategories:— physically (5) — attend in servile manner (1) — agree in servile manner (2) — be servile as black person (2) |
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