toady

Meanings

Plural: toadies

Noun

• a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
• A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage, or an obsequious, servile lackey or minion.
• A coarse, rustic woman.
• Diminutive of toad.

Verb

• try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
• To behave like a toady (toward someone).
• To behave like a toady toward (someone).

Adj

• toadlike

Synonyms

adulator, apple polisher, arse-kisser, arse-licker, ass-kisser, ass-licker, bootlick, bootlicker, brown noser, buttkisser, buttlicker, clawback, crawler, dickrider, doormat, fawn, flatterer, flunkey, groveler, groveller, hanger-on, kiss-ass, kotow, kowtow, lackey, lick-platter, lickpot, lickspittle, minion, people pleaser, pickthank, schmoozer, simp, suck up, sycophant, throne sniffer, toadeater, toady, truckle, white knight

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