Toady \Toad"y\, n.; pl. Toadies. [Shortened from toadeater.]
1. A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
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Before I had been standing at the window five
minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were
all toadies and humbugs. --Dickens.
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2. A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] --Sir W. Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Toady \Toad"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toadied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Toadying.]
To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
toady
n : a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a
personal advantage [syn: sycophant, crawler, lackey]
v : try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always
kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, truckle, bootlick,
kowtow, kotow, suck up]
[also: toadied]
WordNet (r) 2.0
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "toady":
apple-polish, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher,
backslapper, bend the knee, bootlick, bootlicker, bow,
bow and scrape, brown-nose, brownie, clawback, courtier, cower,
crawl, creature, creep, cringe, cringer, crouch, dupe, fawn,
fawner, flatter, flatterer, flunky, follow, footlicker, grovel,
groveler, handshaker, helot, instrument, jackal, kneel, kowtow,
kowtower, lackey, led captain, lick the dust, lickspit,
lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, peon, puppet, serf, slave,
spaniel, stooge, stoop, suck, sycophant, tag, tail, timeserver,
toad, toadeat, toadeater, tool, trail, truckle, truckler,
tufthunter, yes-man
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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