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Webster 1913 Edition


Toady

Toad′y

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Toadies
(#)
.
[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.

Toad′y

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Toadied
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Toadying
.]
To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.