wazelina

== Polish == === Etymology === Borrowed from English vaseline. The colloquial meaning is an allusion to the idiom włazić w dupę (“to offer flattery, to seek favor;, literally: to go up someone's ass”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /va.zɛˈli.na/ Rhymes: -ina Syllabification: wa‧ze‧li‧na === Noun === wazelina f vaseline, petroleum jelly (colloquial, derogatory) flattery (excessive praise) Synonym: lizusostwo (colloquial, derogatory) bootlicker, brown noser, flatterer, sycophant Synonyms: cmokier, lizus, pochlebca, podlizuch, wazeliniarz ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “wazelina”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “wazelina”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish)