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toady
(encz) | toady,patolízal n: Zdeněk Brož |
toady
(encz) | toady,podlézat v: Zdeněk Brož |
Toady
(gcide) | Toady \Toad"y\, n.; pl. Toadies. [Shortened from toadeater.]
1. A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
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Before I had been standing at the window five
minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were
all toadies and humbugs. --Dickens.
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2. A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] --Sir W. Scott.
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Toady
(gcide) | Toady \Toad"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toadied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Toadying.]
To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
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toady
(wn) | toady
n 1: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a
personal advantage [syn: sycophant, toady, crawler,
lackey, ass-kisser]
v 1: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always
kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, toady, truckle,
bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up] |
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toadyish
(encz) | toadyish, adj: |
Toady
(gcide) | Toady \Toad"y\, n.; pl. Toadies. [Shortened from toadeater.]
1. A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
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Before I had been standing at the window five
minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were
all toadies and humbugs. --Dickens.
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2. A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] --Sir W. Scott.
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[1913 Webster]Toady \Toad"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toadied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Toadying.]
To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
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Toadying
(gcide) | Toady \Toad"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toadied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Toadying.]
To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
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Toadyism
(gcide) | Toadyism \Toad"y*ism\, n.
The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy;
servile adulation.
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toadyish
(wn) | toadyish
adj 1: attempting to win favor from influential people by
flattery [syn: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious,
sycophantic, toadyish]
2: attempting to win favor by flattery [syn: bootlicking,
fawning, sycophantic, toadyish] |
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