Toady
['təʊdɪ] or ['todi]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
(n.) A coarse, rustic woman.
(v. t.) To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
手打:特雷弗
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [Colloquial and Low.] Sycophant, TOAD-EATER.
v. a. [Colloquial and Low.] Flatter, fawn upon.
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例句/造句/用法:
- When I come into the country, she says (for she has a great deal of humour), I leave my toady, Miss Briggs, at home. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- For his friends and cronies, he had a pompous old schoolmaster, who flattered him, and a toady, his senior, whom he could thrash. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Miss Toady explained presently, with that simplicity which distinguishes all her conduct. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And Toady asked Briefless and his wife to dinner the very next week. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- My brothers are my toadies here, my dear, and a pretty pair they are! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The Habsburgs, who had toadied to his success, had taken away his Habsburg empress--she went willingly enough--to Vienna, and he never saw her again. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
手打:玛吉