toady

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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.

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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).

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