Uriah Heep

== English == === Proper noun === Uriah Heep A fictional character, Uriah Heep, in the 1850 Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield, noted for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, the stereotypical yes man. === Noun === Uriah Heep (plural Uriah Heeps) (by extension) Someone like the fictional character Uriah Heep. 1869, "Semi-Detached Wives", The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, New Series, Vol IX, no. 3 (March 1869) page 352 She is the Uriah Heep of society, humbling herself before the Church and the Law, whispering sweetly her vow to honor and obey, hugging her chains as a chattel and a slave. Synonyms: bootlicker, brown noser, yes man ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === Uriah Heep (third-person singular simple present Uriah Heeps, present participle Uriah Heeping, simple past and past participle Uriah Heeped) To be a yes man, in the style of Uriah Heep. 1978, Susan Darter Hunt, "A Matter of Irreconcilable Differences", The North American Review, volume 263, No. 1 (Spring, 1978) page 34 But he'd Uriah-Heeped himself into yet another corner from which she refused to extricate him. Synonym: brownnose ==== Translations ====