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toady

[toh-dee] Example Sentences Origin

toad·y

[toh-dee] noun, plural toad·ies, verb, toad·ied, toad·y·ing.
noun
1.
an obsequious flatterer; sycophant.
verb (used with object)
2.
to be the toady to.

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Toady is one of our favorite verbs.
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chat, to converse
to bark; yelp.
verb (used without object)
3.
to be a toady.

Origin:
1680–90; toad + -y2

toad·y·ish, adjective
toad·y·ism, noun
un·toad·y·ing, adjective


1. fawner, yes man, parasite, apple polisher.

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  • Sure, he hates the village headman who is a toady to the region's oppressive.
  • If administrators and toady colleagues attack you, then beat them into the ground.
  • Another way of putting it is putting off what should have been done toady for tommorow.
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toady (ˈtəʊdɪ)
 
n , pl toadies
1.  a person who flatters and ingratiates himself or herself in a servile way; sycophant
 
vb , toadies, toadies, toadying, toadied
2.  to fawn on and flatter (someone)
 
[C19: shortened from toadeater]
 
'toadyish
 
adj
 
'toadyism
 
n

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Word Origin & History

toady
"servile parasite," 1826, apparently shortened from toad-eater "fawning flatterer" (1742), originally referring to the assistant of a charlatan, who ate a toad (believed to be poisonous) to enable his master to display his skill in expelling the poison (1629). The verb is recorded from 1827.
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