吮癰舐痔

せんようしじ

Meanings

1. Expression currying favour (favor); brown-nosing; bootlicking (literally: sucking pus from carbuncles and licking hemorrhoids (haemorrhoids))

Kanji

• 吮 suck. Read as セン.
• 癰 boil; carbuncle. Read as ヨウ.
• 舐 lick
• 痔 piles; hemorrhoids. Read as ジ.

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