EGAVE

toady

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage, or an obsequious, servile lackey or minion.
  2. noun A coarse, rustic woman.
  3. verb To behave like a toady (toward someone). .mw-parser-output .object-usage-tag{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output .deprecated{color:var(--wikt-palette-grey-lime-8,olivedrab)}[transitive or with to]
  4. adjective toadlike
  5. noun Diminutive of toad.

Similar words

sycophant bootlick kowtow kotow crawler lackey suck up truckle fawn lickspittle

Often followed by

to and of lion up for in who or

Word family

toadied toadies toadying toadyism toadyisms

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