It is said in lunfardo of the "obsessive, who brings gossip and flattery to his superiors") . It is formed by the verb manyar ("to eat, to know") ear ("pavilion of the ear"), in allusion to the attitude of approaching the ear to count gossip. See bootlicks, socks suckers, ortiba.
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