Meaning Of The Word Toady

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toady
countable noun: If you refer to someone as a toady, you disapprove of them because they flatter or are pleasant towards an important or powerful person in the hope of getting some advantage from them.
verb: If you say that someone is toadying to an important or powerful person, you disapprove of them because they are flattering or being pleasant towards that person in the hope of getting some advantage from them.

toady in American English
a servile flatterer; sycophant, esp. one who does distasteful or unprincipled things in order to gain favor
to be a toady (to); flatter
intransitive verb: to be a toady
noun: an obsequious flatterer; sycophant
transitive verb: to be the toady to

toady in British English
noun: a person who flatters and ingratiates himself or herself in a servile way; sycophant
verb: to fawn on and flatter (someone)

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