TOADY

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant. Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs. Dickens.

2.
n.

A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

3.
v.

To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.


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