toady

toad·y  (td)

n. pl. toad·ies

A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.

tr. & intr.v. toad·ied, toad·y·ing, toad·ies

To be a toady to or behave like a toady. See Synonyms at fawn¹.

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[From toad.]

Word History: The earliest recorded sense (around 1690) of toady is "a little or young toad," but this has nothing to do with the modern usage of the word. The modern sense has rather to do with the practice of certain quacks or charlatans who claimed that they could draw out poisons. Toads were thought to be poisonous, so these charlatans would have an attendant eat or pretend to eat a toad and then claim to extract the poison from the attendant. Since eating a toad is an unpleasant job, these attendants came to epitomize the type of person who would do anything for a superior, and toadeater (first recorded 1629) became the name for a flattering, fawning parasite. Toadeater and the verb derived from it, toadeat, influenced the sense of the noun and verb toad and the noun toady, so that both nouns could mean "sycophant" and the verb toady could mean "to act like a toady to someone."

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toady [ˈtəʊdɪ]

n pl toadies

a person who flatters and ingratiates himself in a servile way; sycophant

vb toadies, toadying, toadied

to fawn on and flatter (someone)

[shortened from toadeater]

toadyish  adj

toadyism  n

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	toady - a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage ass-kisser, crawler, sycophant, lackey apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveler, groveller, truckler - someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect adulator, flatterer - a person who uses flattery goody-goody - a person who behaves extremely well in order to please a superior
Verb	1.	toady - try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss" bootlick, kotow, kowtow, fawn, truckle, suck up blandish, flatter - praise somewhat dishonestly court favor, court favour, curry favor, curry favour - seek favor by fawning or flattery; "This employee is currying favor with his superordinates"

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toady

noun

sycophant, creep (slang), hanger-on, minion, flunkey, parasite, fawner, jackal, spaniel, lackey, crawler (slang), yes man, brown-noser (taboo slang), flatterer, truckler, lickspittle, ass-kisser (U.S. & Canad. taboo slang), apple polisher (U.S. slang), groveller, bootlicker (informal) Life was too short to become a toady to a megalomaniac.

verb

fawn on, flatter, grovel, creep, crawl, cringe, pander to, suck up to (informal), curry favour with, butter up, kiss someone's ass (U.S. & Canad. taboo slang), brown-nose (taboo slang), kowtow to, bow and scrape, lick someone's boots, kiss the feet of, lick someone's arse (taboo slang), be obsequious to They came backstage, cooing and toadying to him.
fawn on oppose, rebel, resist, confront, defy, withstand, stand against

Translations

toady [ˈtəʊdɪ] (pej)

A. N → adulador(a) m/f, pelotilla mf inv, pelota mf

B. VI to toady to sb → adular or hacer la pelotilla a algn, dar coba a algn

toady [ˈtəʊdi] vi
to toady to sb → flatter qn

toady

n (pej) → Kriecher(in) m(f), → Speichellecker(in) m(f)

vi → Rad fahren (pej inf); to toady to somebody → vor jdm kriechen

toady [ˈtəʊdɪ] (pej)

1. n → leccapiedi m/f inv

2. vi to toady to sb → leccare i piedi a qn

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toady [ˈtəʊdɪ] (pej)

1. n → leccapiedi m/f inv

2. vi to toady to sb → leccare i piedi a qn