toady
Noun
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Noun
toady (plural toadies)
- A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage or an obsequious lackey or minion
- 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 61
- But how could she have helped herself? I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies, the scepticism of the professional poet.
- Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs.
- 1827, Walter Scott, The Surgeon's Daughter
- “But who is she, can you tell me?” “Some fair-skinned speculation of old Montreville's, I suppose, that she has got either to toady herself, or take in some of her black friends with.—Is it possible you have never heard of old Mother Montreville?”
- 1901, John Gibson Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1, p569
- ...the appearance of only three coaches, each drawn by four horses, was rather trying for poor Lady Scott. They contained Mrs Coutts — her future lord the Duke of St Albans — one of his Grace's sisters — a dame de compagnie (vulgarly styled a Toady)
- 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 61
- (archaic) A coarse, rustic woman.
- See also Thesaurus:sycophant
- French: flagorneur
- German: Arschkriecher, Schleimer
- Italian: leccaculo, adulatore, ruffiano, sicofante, lecchino
- Portuguese: lambe-botas, (Brazil) puxa-saco
- Russian: подли́за
- Spanish: (Latin America) arrastrado, (Colombia) cepillero, (River Plate region) chupamedias, (Mexico) lambiscón, lameculos, (Spain) pelotillero, (Latin America) sobon, (Miami, Latin America) come mierda, (Peru) franelero
toady (toadies, present participle toadying; past and past participle toadied)
- (intransitive, construed with to) To behave like a toady (to someone).
toady
- toadlike
- 1874, Transactions (issue 19, page 141)
- The bath is of greatest advantage in these chronic cases, with an earthy complexion and toady skin, if I am allowed thus to express its appearance.
- 1874, Transactions (issue 19, page 141)
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