toady in English

noun

1

a person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.

He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady , a sycophant.

synonyms: sycophant, brown-noser, lickspittle, flatterer, flunky, lackey, trained seal, doormat, stooge, cringer, bootlicker, suck-up, yes-man, kiss-ass, ass-kisser

verb

1

act in an obsequious way.

she imagined him toadying to his rich clients

synonyms: grovel to, ingratiate oneself with, be obsequious to, kowtow to, pander to, crawl to, truckle to, bow and scrape to, curry favor with, make up to, fawn on/over, slaver over, flatter, adulate, suck up to, lick the boots of, butter up

noun

• sycophant, brown-noser, lickspittle, flatterer, flunky, lackey, trained seal, doormat, stooge, cringer, bootlicker, suck-up, yes-man, kiss-ass, ass-kisser
• lackey, sycophant, crawler, ass-kisser

verb

• grovel to, ingratiate oneself with, be obsequious to, kowtow to, pander to, crawl to, truckle to, bow and scrape to, curry favor with, make up to, fawn on/over, slaver over, flatter, adulate, suck up to, lick the boots of, butter up
• truckle, kowtow, kotow, bootlick, suck up, fawn

Use "toady" in a sentence

1. He disdains toady to his boss.

2. Is Tony now the Toad's toady?

3. I caught a rabbit in the trap toady.

4. Toady is the volunteer recruited day.

5. Arrogance has no defense against a toady.

6. We went out again to buy materials toady.

7. Oh , hello, Mr. Lee. How are you toady?

8. The salmon is good toady, it's very fresh.

9. He felt like a hanger-on, a toady.

10. Toady, I went to the zoo and saw many animals.

11. I'm not your toady and I'm not your friend.

12. He knows how to toady to his boss.

13. Toady, the Indian and Chinese have their big communities there.

14. He flung it in my teeth that I was a toady.

15. Don't toady to or be obsequious to rich or powerful people.

16. We knocked off work a little earlier toady because of the bad weather.

17. 11 synonyms for Brownnose: bootlick, cringe, fawn, grovel, kowtow, slaver, toady, truckle, apple

18. I'm not prepared to toady to him just to save my job.

19. It strikes me that Tommy has already mastered the art of being a toady.

20. Wonderingly Bemeaned - gaster noosing subangular lexically immunological toady Rafe, misconceiving coherently purging prelateship

21. 14 synonyms for Crawler: ass-kisser, sycophant, toady, lackey, creeper, angleworm, dew worm, earthworm

22. An invention may be new toady, but in a few years, it may be outdated.

23. The craft of thatching as it is practiced toady has changed very little since the Middle Ages.

24. Synonyms for Bootlicker include crawler, creep, fawner, flatterer, lickspittle, suck-up, sycophant, toady, apple-polisher and brown-nose

25. Blandished definition: praise somewhat dishonestly synonyms: kowtow, praise, toady, truckle, bootlick, fawn, adulate, flatter, brown-nose, stroke, kotow, soft

26. How is the word Cower distinct from other similar verbs? Some common synonyms of Cower are cringe, fawn, toady, and truckle

27. Bootlicker (plural Bootlickers) A person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner; a toady (by extension) Anyone who is seen as supporting authoritarianism

28. Bootlicker (plural Bootlickers) A person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner; a toady ( by extension ) Anyone who is seen as supporting authoritarianism .

29. Synonyms for Brownnose include flatter, bootlick, toady, apple-polish, suck up to, fawn on, curry favour, curry favor, back-scratch and get on the right side of

30. According to the OED, the earliest use of the terms bootlick, meaning to toady, and Bootlicker, referring to a person who does the same, is from 1846

31. Noun someone who seeks favor or goodwill in a servile, degraded way; toady: He comes across as a facile Bootlicker, someone who would do anything like a …

32. Bootlicker - someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect apple polisher, fawner, groveler, groveller, truckler crawler, sycophant, toady, lackey - a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

33. ‘I probably could have gotten away with it for a while, but I got ratted on by some Bootlicker at work who spotted me at this junkyard.’ Synonyms sycophant , obsequious person, toady, fawner, flatterer, creep, crawler, lickspittle, truckler, groveller, doormat, kowtower, spaniel, Uriah Heep

34. Blandish: 1 v praise somewhat dishonestly Synonyms: flatter Antonyms: belittle , disparage , pick at express a negative opinion of Types: show 6 types hide 6 types soft-soap use flattering talk on somebody adulate flatter in an obsequious manner stroke treat gingerly or carefully bootlick , fawn , kotow , kowtow , suck up , toady ,

35. Approval amen corner A coterie of fervent believers or ardent followers, so-called from the place in a church, usually near the pulpit, occupied by those who lead the responsive “amens.” A person in the amen corner is, figuratively speaking, a disciple or devotee; often a yes-man or sycophantic toady.