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toady Definition

toady ()

noun pl. toad·ies

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

Etymology: 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 toad·ied, toady·ing

to be a toady (to); flatter

toady Related Forms
toady·ism′ noun
toady Synonyms

toady

n.

toady Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

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toady Quotes

The Iraqi is really not whacky Toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word He gave us the bird And joined with the Arabs, by cracky!

—Acheson, Dean Gooderham