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Synonyms for toadying

Grammar : Verb
Spell : toh-dee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtoʊ di

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Définition of toadying

Origin :
  • "servile parasite," 1826, apparently shortened from toad-eater "fawning flatterer" (1742), originally referring to the assistant of a charlatan, who ate a toad (believed to be poisonous) to enable his master to display his skill in expelling the poison (1620s). The verb is recorded from 1827. Related: Toadied; toadying.
  • verb fawn
Example sentences :
  • "It is worth lots of toadying," declared De Vere, emphatically.
  • Extract from : « Lancaster's Choice » by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
  • What looked like toadying was only profound deference for himself.
  • Extract from : « The Missourian » by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
  • Now it seems to me that the toadying is all on the other side.
  • Extract from : « Doctor Thorne » by Anthony Trollope
  • His will gives us some insight into the toadying character of the man.
  • Extract from : « The Wits and Beaux of Society » by Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton
  • He was a tuft-hunter and a toady, but he did not know that he was doing amiss in seeking to rise by tuft-hunting and toadying.
  • Extract from : « Can You Forgive Her? » by Anthony Trollope
  • I feel sure, as I said, that she's toadying to Mrs. Carnaby, and expects to make her gain out of it somehow.
  • Extract from : « The Whirlpool » by George Gissing
  • There is always to be found men who swell their importance by toadying men of character and eminence.
  • Extract from : « The Memories of Fifty Years » by William H. Sparks
  • Prominent among them were Bull and his toadying little friend, Baby Edwards.
  • Extract from : « A Cadet's Honor » by Upton Sinclair
  • Bull Harris smiled benignly upon his toadying echo, while the rest of the gang nodded approvingly.
  • Extract from : « A Cadet's Honor » by Upton Sinclair
  • The toadying beast is even trying to curry favour by saying that your copyhold is for life only, and that your fine is uncertain.
  • Extract from : « The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century » by Richard Henry Tawney
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