brown-noser, suck-up, ardent admirer
Aquele estagiário é o maior paga pau do chefe.
That intern is the biggest brown-noser to the boss.
Paga pau labels a fawning suck-up or an ardent admirer, someone who flatters to win favour or gushes over a person or thing. It comes from the verb phrase pagar pau, "to pay homage to" or gush over someone; pau is a catch-all, slightly vulgar Brazilian word (literally "stick," also slang for money and for the male member), which gives the term its crude edge.
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