toady

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2 Derived terms 1.2.3 Translations 1.3 Verb 1.4 Anagrams

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[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊdi

[edit] Noun

toady (plural toadies)

1. A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.
   • 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 61

     But how could she have helped herself? I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies, the scepticism of the professional poet.

[edit] Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:sycophant

[edit] Derived terms

• toadyish

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[edit] Verb

to toady (third-person singular simple present toadies, present participle toadying, simple past and past participle toadied)

1. (intransitive, construed with to) To behave like a toady (to someone).

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: adoty
• today, to-day