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[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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