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Toady

noun
(pl. toadies)
1.
A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage.  Synonyms: ass-kisser, crawler, lackey, sycophant.
verb
(past & past part. toadied; pres. part. toadying)
1.
Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering.  Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, truckle.





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"Toady" Quotes from Famous Books



... Chip Macklin is doing pretty well, too," put in Buster, referring to a small lad who had once been a toady to Gus Plum, the ...
— Dave Porter and His Double - The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune • Edward Stratemeyer
 
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... capacity with the natives, have become so wrapped up in them, and so hoodwinked, that they will see nothing, only through the spectacles provided for them by the native functionaries, who always toady and flatter their European masters," was the contemptuous remark of one of the party. The last speaker was here interrupted by the Brigade Major, who came bounding up the steps of the verandah, three at a time. ...
— Vellenaux - A Novel • Edmund William Forrest
 
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... see he has grown so much lately that his skin is very tight, and it is looking dull. He'll soon cast it off. It will split down his back, and then he will draw his legs out of it.—And you'll have a nice new suit complete, won't you, old Toady?" ...
— Woodside - or, Look, Listen, and Learn. • Caroline Hadley
 
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... TOADY. A fawning, obsequious parasite; a toad-eater. In college cant, one who seeks or gains favor with an instructor or popularity with his classmates by mean and ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall
 
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... reply to Antipater, who asked him to perform some disgraceful service for him. "I cannot," said he, "be Antipater's friend and his toady at ...
— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch
 
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