The difference between Suck up and Sycophant
When used as verbs, suck up means to absorb (fluid), whereas sycophant means to inform against.
Sycophant is also noun with the meaning: one who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another.
check bellow for the other definitions of Suck up and Sycophant
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Suck up as a verb (transitive):
To absorb (fluid).
Examples:
"The dry soil sucked up water like a sponge."
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Suck up as a verb (slang, chiefly, with "to"):
To adulate or flatter somebody excessively, generally to obtain some personal benefit or favour.
Examples:
"Jimmy sucked up to the English teacher hoping he would get an A."
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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.