Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.
- v. To be a toady to or behave like a toady. See Synonyms at fawn1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Ugly and repulsive like a toad; hateful; beastly.
- n. A sycophant; an interested flatterer; a toad-eater.
- n. A coarse rustic woman.
- To fawn upon in a servile manner; play the toady or sycophant to. The tutors toadied him.
- To play the sycophant; fawn; cringe.
Wiktionary
- n. A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.
- v. To behave like a toady (to someone).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
- n. A coarse, rustic woman.
- v. To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
- v. try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Etymologies
- From toad.
Examples
“Apparently Brian Kilmeade, the toady, is taking the words of Roger Ailes to heart and wants to secure his job.”
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“That quote doesn’t work if the person delivering the message is a toady from the opposition.”
“I is teh pryvayte doody nurse aka toady and slave fer Teh Dawter, who is having teh yooyooal post-surgery paynes.”
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“Harshman ...) within crown-Bufonidae, and outside the enormous clade that includes all of the more familiar, more, err, 'toady'-looking toads.”
“You are a perfect example of an illiterate 'toady'!”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“The former may give practical recognition of entire equality, to the best of his ability, but it will avail nothing, for the latter will not "toady" to his friend, nor be "patronized" by him.”
“This tendency had earned for her the reputation of "toady" by those who did not understand her, or were inclined to judge from the surface.”
Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
“And this kind of toady has an exquisite _flair_ for your greatness and dignity the moment he becomes quite sure of your pecuniary willingness to back both.”
“I am writing of events which took place years ago, but I have seen no reason to change the opinion then formed, that Mr. Parasyte, the principal, was a "toady" of the first water; that he was a narrow-minded, partial man, in whom the principle of justice had never been developed.”
“He said he has been criticized for being the president's "toady" and for "covering his fanny" by accepting the job of commission co-chair.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘toady’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
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yarb See also toad-eating. Apr 21, 2009
bilby Reminds me a bit of the actors who are seen eating in junk food advertisements. Feb 9, 2009
sionnach Quack doctor seeks assistant. Duties will include the demonstration of the fantastical powers of medicinal remedies of my own devising at markets and fairs across the country. After you have swallowed one of my toads, which are supposedly deadly poisonous, you will miraculously come back to life following a dose of one of my medicaments. Then crowds eager for some relief from their aches and pains, infections and diseases will flock to purchase it.
Some experience in sleight-of-hand is advisable, unless you particularly relish the notion of suffering terrible stomach-ache and violent vomiting after gorging down a fat toad – in which case, incidentally, you may find that my own 'Potion for Curious Maladies', at three pence a bottle, provides some relief. Jul 8, 2008
Prolagus The man in the restroom of the Highline Ballroom, tonight.
(a janitor, I mean) Jul 3, 2008