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toady
UK /ˈtəʊ.di/ US /ˈtoʊ.di/
noun 2verb 1adj 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, earthy, enough, favourite
VERB + TOADY
brought, cake, got, sorts
TOADY + NOUN
herself, skin
PREP.
along, up
ADV.
certainly
Definitions
noun
1
A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage, or an obsequious, servile lackey or minion.
"But who is she, can you tell me?" / "Some fair-skinned speculation of old Montreville's, I suppose, that she has got either to toady herself, or take in some of her black friends with.—Is it possible you have never heard of old Mother Montreville?"
Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and a humbug.
2
A coarse, rustic woman.
verb
1
To behave like a toady (toward someone).
But bless your hearts, we "ain't so green," though lots of us of all sorts toady you enough certainly, and try to make you think so.
He had toadied to the late Mr William Morris: he had toadied to various members of the Fabian Society, he had toadied at first to the great Bransdon himself.
adj
1
toadlike
The bath is of greatest advantage in these chronic cases, with an earthy complexion and toady skin, if I am allowed thus to express its appearance.
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"But who is she, can you tell me?" / "Some fair-skinned speculation of old Montreville's, I suppose, that she has got either to toady herself, or take in some of her black friends with.—Is it possible
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Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and
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[T]he appearance of only three coaches, each drawn by four horses, was rather trying for poor Lady Scott. They contained Mrs Coutts – her future lord the Duke of St Albans – one of his Grace's sisters
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But bless your hearts, we "ain't so green," though lots of us of all sorts toady you enough certainly, and try to make you think so.
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He had toadied to the late Mr William Morris: he had toadied to various members of the Fabian Society, he had toadied at first to the great Bransdon himself.
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I dared not do anything to spoil the image of me she had set up to adore. I had toadied to her when she was the awesome duenna of my darling, and a groveling something still persisted in my attitude t
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