toady

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: toad=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

toady, n. [Shortened from toadeater.].

•  A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.  [1913 Webster]

  "Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs."  [1913 Webster]
•  A coarse, rustic woman.  Sir W. Scott.  [1913 Webster]

toady, v. t. 

 To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

toady, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies) a sycophant; an obsequious hanger-on.
--v.tr. & (foll. by to) intr. (-ies, -ied) behave servilely to; fawn upon.

Derivative

toadyish adj. toadyism n.

Etymology

contr. of toad-eater, a charlatan's attendant who ate toads (regarded as poisonous)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

toady

Servility

N servility, slavery, obsequiousness, subserviency, abasement, prostration, prosternation, genuflection, fawning, tuft- hunting, timeserving, flunkeyism, sycophancy, humility, sycophant, parasite, toad, toady, toad-eater, tufthunter, snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight, timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir- Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank, flatterer, doer of dirty work, ame damnee, tool, reptile, slave, courtier, beat, dead beat, doughface, heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler, servile, obsequious, supple, supple as a glove, soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed, beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical, abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones, base, mean, sneaking, crouching, hat in hand, cap in hand.

Flatterer

N flatterer, adulator, eulogist, euphemist, optimist, encomiast, laudator, whitewasher, toady, toadeater, sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant, flaneur, proneur, puffer, touter, claqueur, clawback, earwig, doer of dirty work, parasite, hanger-on, yes-man, suckup, ass-kisser, brown-noser, teacher's pet, pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.