Toady
['təʊdɪ] or ['todi]
Definition
(n.) A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
(n.) A coarse, rustic woman.
(v. t.) To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
Typist: Trevor
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Colloquial and Low.] Sycophant, TOAD-EATER.
v. a. [Colloquial and Low.] Flatter, fawn upon.
Typed by Corinne
Examples
- When I come into the country, she says (for she has a great deal of humour), I leave my toady, Miss Briggs, at home. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- For his friends and cronies, he had a pompous old schoolmaster, who flattered him, and a toady, his senior, whom he could thrash. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Miss Toady explained presently, with that simplicity which distinguishes all her conduct. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And Toady asked Briefless and his wife to dinner the very next week. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My brothers are my toadies here, my dear, and a pretty pair they are! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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