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toady n. 谄媚者,拍马屁的人
vt.
vi. 谄媚,拍马屁 谄媚者,拍马屁的人谄媚,拍马屁 toady n 1: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage [ synonym: { sycophant}, { toady}, { crawler}, { lackey}, { ass- kisser}] v 1: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; " He is always kowtowing to his boss" [ synonym: { fawn}, { toady}, { truckle}, { bootlick}, { kowtow}, { kotow}, { suck up}] Toady \ Toad" y\, n.; pl. { Toadies}. [ Shortened from toadeater.] 1. 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. -- Dickens. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A coarse, rustic woman. [ R.] -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] [ 1913 Webster]
Toady \ Toad" y\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Toadied}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Toadying}.] To fawn upon with mean sycophancy. [ 1913 Webster] 66 Moby Thesaurus words for " 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
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