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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Toady \Toad"y\, noun; pl. {Toadies}. [Shortened from toadeater.]
1. A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs. --Dickens.
2. A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] --Sir W. Scott.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Toady \Toad"y\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Toadied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Toadying}.] To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
toady
noun: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage [syn: {sycophant}, {crawler}, {lackey}]
verb: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss" [syn: {fawn}, {truckle}, {bootlick}, {kowtow}, {kotow}, {suck up}] [also: {toadied}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "toady": apple-polish, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, bend the knee, bootlick, bootlicker, bow, bow and scrape, brown-nose, brownie, clawback, courtier, cower, crawl, creature, creep, cringe, cringer, crouch, dupe, fawn, fawner, flatter, flatterer, flunky, follow, footlicker, grovel, groveler, handshaker, helot, instrument, jackal, kneel, kowtow, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lick the dust, lickspit, lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, peon, puppet, serf, slave, spaniel, stooge, stoop, suck, sycophant, tag, tail, timeserver, toad, toadeat, toadeater, tool, trail, truckle, truckler, tufthunter, yes-man
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