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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flatterer \Flat"ter*er\, noun One who flatters.
The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
flatterer
noun: a person who uses flattery [syn: {adulator}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "flatterer": adulator, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, blarneyer, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, cajoler, clawback, courtier, creature, cringer, dupe, fawner, flunky, footlicker, groveler, handshaker, hanger-on, helot, instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, leech, lickspit, lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, parasite, peon, puppet, serf, slave, spaniel, sponge, stooge, suck, sycophant, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, wheedler, yes-man
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