All humouring synonyms

verb humouring

• do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• fill the bill — a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied: He paid the hotel bill when he checked out.
• hit the spot — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
• make a hit — If you make a hit with someone, they like you or are impressed by you when they meet you.
• abase — to humble or belittle (oneself, etc)
• beseech — If you beseech someone to do something, you ask them very eagerly and anxiously.
• beg — If you beg someone to do something, you ask them very anxiously or eagerly to do it.
• brown-nose — to curry favor; behave obsequiously.
• cower — If you cower, you bend forward and downwards because you are very frightened.
• crawl — When you crawl, you move forward on your hands and knees.
• creep — When people or animals creep somewhere, they move quietly and slowly.
• cringe — If you cringe at something, you feel embarrassed or disgusted, and perhaps show this feeling in your expression or by making a slight movement.
• crouch — If you are crouching, your legs are bent under you so that you are close to the ground and leaning forward slightly.
• flatter — to make flat.
• implore — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
• kneel — to go down or rest on the knees or a knee.
• kowtow — to act in an obsequious manner; show servile deference.
• prostrate — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
• revere — to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate: The child revered her mother.
• snivel — to weep or cry with sniffling.
• stoop — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
• truckle — to submit or yield obsequiously or tamely (usually followed by to): Don't truckle to unreasonable demands.
• apple-polish — to curry favor with someone, especially in an obsequious or flattering manner.
• bow and scrape — to behave in an excessively deferential or obsequious way
• eat crow — any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.
• eat dirt — any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
• eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
• make up to — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
• yes — (used to express affirmation or assent or to mark the addition of something emphasizing and amplifying a previous statement): Do you want that? Yes, I do.
• entertain — Provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment.
• nourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
• satiate — to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit.
• take care of — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
• allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
• cater — In British English, to cater for a group of people means to provide all the things that they need or want. In American English, you say you cater to a person or group of people.
• pander — a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
• give in — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• give rein to — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
• go along — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• tend — to attend by action, care, etc. (usually followed by to).
• cradle — A cradle is a baby's bed with high sides. Cradles often have curved bases so that they rock from side to side.
• feed — to give a fee to.
• keep an eye on — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
• look after — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
• vaccinate — to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
• attend — If you attend a meeting or other event, you are present at it.
• baby-sit — to act or work as a baby-sitter
• cultivate — If you cultivate land or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it.
• encourage — Give support, confidence, or hope to (someone).
• father — a male parent.