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},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Jo-brooda"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "potakiwacz"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pau-mandado"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lambe-botas"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "puxa-saco"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sikofánt",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "сикофа́нт"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podxalím",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "подхали́м"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lizobljúd",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лизоблю́д"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podpevála",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "подпева́ла"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "по̀слӯшнӣк"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pòslūšnīk"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior",
"word": "sacristán de amén"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "ja-sägare"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nickedocka"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior",
"word": "evet efendimci"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"note": "אָמן־זאָגער m (omen-zoger, literally “amen-sayer”)",
"sense": "a person who always agrees with his employer or superior"
}
],
"word": "yes man"
}
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