English-Thai Dictionary

toady

N ผู้ ประจบสอพลอ  phu-pra-job-sor-por

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TOADY

Toad "y, n.; pl. Toadies. Etym: [Shortened from toadeater. ]

 

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

 

TOADY

Toad "y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toadied; p. pr. & vb. n. Toadying.]

 

Defn: To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.

 

TOADYISM

TOADYISM Toad "y *ism, n.

 

Defn: The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

toady

toad y |ˈtōdē ˈtoʊdi | ▶noun ( pl. toadies ) a person who behaves obsequiously to someone important. ▶verb ( toadies, toadying, toadied ) [ no obj. ] act in an obsequious way: she imagined him toadying to his rich clients. DERIVATIVES toad y ish adjective, toad y ism |-ˌizəm |noun ORIGIN early 19th cent.: said to be a contraction of toad-eater, a charlatan's assistant who ate toads; toads were regarded as poisonous, and the assistant's survival was thought to be due to the efficacy of the charlatan's remedy.

 

Oxford Dictionary

toady

toady |ˈtəʊdi | ▶noun ( pl. toadies ) 1 a person who behaves obsequiously to someone important. 2 Australian term for pufferfish. ▶verb ( toadies, toadying, toadied ) [ no obj. ] act in an obsequious way: she imagined him toadying to his rich clients. DERIVATIVES toadyish adjective, toadyism noun ORIGIN early 19th cent.: said to be a contraction of toad-eater, a charlatan's assistant who ate toads; toads were regarded as poisonous, and the assistant's survival was thought to be due to the efficacy of the charlatan's remedy.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

toady

toady noun a conniving little toady: sycophant, brown-noser, lickspittle, flatterer, flunky, lackey, trained seal, doormat, stooge, cringer; informal bootlicker, suck-up, yes-man; vulgar slang kiss-ass, ass-kisser. ▶verb she imagined him toadying to his rich clients: grovel to, ingratiate oneself with, be obsequious to, kowtow to, pander to, crawl to, truckle to, bow and scrape to, curry favor with, make up to, fawn on /over, slaver over, flatter, adulate, suck up to, lick the boots of, butter up.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

toady

toady noun a conniving little toady with an eye for the main chance: sycophant, obsequious person, creep, crawler, fawner, flatterer, flunkey, lackey, truckler, groveller, doormat, lickspittle, kowtower, minion, hanger-on, leech, puppet, stooge, spaniel, Uriah Heep; informal bootlicker, yes-man; vulgar slang arse-licker, arse-kisser; Brit. vulgar slang bum-sucker; N. Amer. vulgar slang brown-nose, suckhole. ANTONYMS independent, one's own master. ▶verb she imagined him toadying to his rich clients: be obsequious towards, be servile towards, be sycophantic towards, grovel to, kowtow to, abase oneself to, demean oneself to, bow and scrape to, prostrate oneself to, truckle to, make up to, play up to, dance attendance on, fawn on, ingratiate oneself with, rub up the right way, curry favour with, flatter, court; informal suck up to, crawl to, creep to, be all over, lick someone's boots, fall all over, butter up, keep someone sweet; N. Amer. brown-nose; vulgar slang lick /kiss someone's arse. ANTONYMS defy.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

toady

toad y /tóʊdi /名詞 複 -ies C おべっか使い .動詞 -ies ; -ied ; ～ing 他動詞 自動詞 (…に )おべっかを使う, へつらう .