Flatter

Definition

flatter / 'flætǝ(r) / v ၁။ မ်က္ႏွာခ်ဳိေသြးသည္။ ခယဝယ လုပ္သည္။ ေျမႇာက္ပင့္သည္။ If you flatter your mother a bit she might invite us all to dinner. ၂။ (usu passive) ဝမ္းသာသည္။ ဂုဏ္ယူသည္။ I was very flattered by the invitation to speak at the conference. ၃။ လိုက္ဖက္သည္။ ဟပ္မိသည္။ ကိုက္သည္။ You need a hairstyle that flatters the shape of your face. ❍ ( ironic ) This photograph certainly doesn't flatter you (ie It makes you look rather ugly). ၄။ ~ oneself (that …) (no passive) အထင္ႀကီးသည္။ Do you really think he likes you? You flatter yourself! ❍ He flatters himself that he speaks French well. flatterer / 'flætǝrǝ(r) / n ❏ flattering / 'flætǝrÇŋ / adj (က) လိုက္ဖက္ေသာ။ ဟပ္မိ ေသာ။ အသားေဆာင္ေသာ။ That's a very flattering dress Ann's wearing. (ခ) ႏွစ္ၿမိဳ႕ဖြယ္ ရိွေသာ။ နားဝင္ခ်ဳိေသာ။ His comments weren't very flattering. ❏ flattery / 'flætǝri / n [U] ေျမႇာက္လံုးပင့္လံုး။ You're too intelligent to fall for his flattery.

Examples

1. You’re trying to flatter me
2. and it won’t work.