Found 4 hits - Term: toady, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
toady \toad"y\, n.; pl. toadies. shortened from toadeater.
1. a mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
1913 webster
before i had been standing at the window five
minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were
all toadies and humbugs. --dickens.
1913 webster
2. a coarse, rustic woman. r. --sir w. scott.
1913 webster
1913 webster
see also:
toadies
- [2] : 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.
1913 webster
see also:
toadied toadying
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
sycophant crawler lackey fawn truckle bootlick
kowtow kotow suck up toadied
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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