Definizione monolingua

toady

toady (third-person singular simple present toadies, present participle toadying, simple past and past participle toadied)

1. (intransitive, construed with to) To behave like a toady (to someone).

toady (plural toadies)

1. A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.
   • 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of Ones Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 61

     But how could she have helped herself? I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies, the scepticism of the professional poet.

   • 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1

     ""Go on, Hiram, show em what you can do,"" urged Luke Fodick, who was a sort of toady to Hiram Shell, the school bully, if ever there was one.

Definizione dizionario toady

	adulatore
	Sycophant flattering others to gain personal advantage

	leccaculo
	Sycophant flattering others to gain personal advantage

	ruffiano
	Sycophant flattering others to gain personal advantage

	sicofante
	Sycophant flattering others to gain personal advantage

leccapiedi

Altri significati:

(intransitive, construed with to ) To behave like a toady (to someone).

A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.

Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.