The difference between Brown noser and Sycophant
When used as nouns, brown noser means one who brownnoses (flatters or humors somebody in an obsequious manner for personal gain), whereas sycophant means one who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another.
Sycophant is also verb with the meaning: to inform against.
check bellow for the other definitions of Brown noser and Sycophant
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Brown noser as a noun (idiomatic):
One who brownnoses (flatters or humors somebody in an obsequious manner for personal gain); one who sucks up; a bootlicker, ass-kisser, sycophant.
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Sycophant as a noun:
One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
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Sycophant as a noun:
One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
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Sycophant as a noun (obsolete):
An informer; a talebearer.
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Sycophant as a verb (transitive):
To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
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Sycophant as a verb (transitive):
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.