- Toadying
- Toady Toad"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toadied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Toadying}.] To fawn upon with mean sycophancy. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Toadying
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toadying — index obsequious, sequacious, subservient Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
toadying — Synonyms and related words: abject, apple polishing, ass kissing, backscratching, beggarly, bootlicking, brown nosing, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, fawnery, fawning, flattering, flunkyism, footlicking, groveling, handshaking, hangdog … Moby Thesaurus
toadying — toad·y || təʊdɪ n. flatterer, sycophant, parasite v. flatter in the hope of gaining favor, fawn upon … English contemporary dictionary
toady — [[t]to͟ʊdi[/t]] toadies, toadying, toadied 1) N COUNT (disapproval) If you refer to someone as a toady, you disapprove of them because they flatter or are pleasant towards an important or powerful person in the hope of getting some advantage from … English dictionary
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flattery — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Undue adulation Nouns 1. flattery, adulation, blandishment, cajolery; fawning, wheedling, coquetry, sycophancy, flunkeyism, servility, toadying, incense, honeyed words, flummery, blarney; lip service,… … English dictionary for students
obsequious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. abject, fawning, sycophantic, cringing, servile, truckling, compliant. See servility, respect. Ant., dominant. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. docile, submissive, cringing, slavish, sycophantic,… … English dictionary for students
toady — toad|y1 [ˈtəudi US ˈtou ] n plural toadies [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: toadeater helper of a seller of medicines who pretended to eat toads (thought to be poisonous) to prove the value of the medicine (17 19 centuries)] informal someone who… … Dictionary of contemporary English
fawn — vb Fawn, toady, truckle, cringe, cower are comparable when they mean to act or behave with abjectness in the presence of a superior. Fawn implies a courting of favor by such acts of a sycophant as servile flattery and exaggerated deference {they… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
fawning — adj 1. servile, slavish, obsequious, Obs. obsequent, subservient, menial, Obs., Rare. vernile; submissive, docile, unassertive, compliant, acquiescent, deferential, Tomish, Uncle Tomish, tractable, mealy mouthed; groveling, crawling, creeping,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
