blandish vs butter up

blandish and butter up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
blandish	No	No	Yes	No
butter up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, butter up is a hyponym of blandish; that is, butter up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than blandish:

Other hyponyms of blandish include soft-soap, adulate, stroke, bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle, brown-nose.

blandish (verb)	butter up (verb)
praise somewhat dishonestly	flatter with the intention of getting something