toadied

Variant of toady

noun pl. toadies

a servile flatterer; sycophant, esp. one who does distasteful or unprincipled things in order to gain favor

Origin: short for toadeater, quack doctor's assistant who pretended to eat toads (thought to be poisonous) to show the efficacy of quack medicines

transitive verb, intransitive verb toadied, toadying

to be a toady (to); flatter

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