mouth honor

Buckets of cold water were thrown over him before he dressed, and his table was served at seven or eight o'clock with sandwiches and various messes which Duboscage describes as “des ragouts Kosaks detestables;” to which men paid “the mouth honor, which they would fain deny, but dare not,” lest Suwarow should consider them effeminate.

Flattery -- N. flattery, adulation, gloze; blandishment, blandiloquence†; cajolery; fawning, wheedling &c. v.; captation†, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism†, toadeating†, tuft-hunting; snobbishness. incense, honeyed words, flummery; bunkum, buncombe; blarney, placebo, butter; soft soap, soft sawder†; rose water. voice of the charmer, mouth honor; lip homage; euphemism; unctuousness &c. adj..