fish for compliments
verbDefinitions
To self-deprecate in order to induce someone to make a compliment.
- He’s so narcissistic! He whines that he’s ugly and unlikeable just to fish for compliments.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fish for compliments. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA