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Definition: TOADEATER |
TOADEATERNoun1. A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer; a toady. |
Etymology: Toadeater \Toad"eat`er\, noun. [Said to be so called in allusion to an old alleged practice among mountebanks' boys of eating toads (popularly supposed to be poisonous), in order that their masters might have an opportunity of pretending to effect cure. The French equivalent expression is un avaleur de couleuvres. Compare to Toady.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Flatterer | Toady, toadeater; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; flaneur, proneur; puffer, touter, claqueur; clawback, earwig, doer of dirty work; parasite, hanger-on; (servility). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "TOADEATER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hebrew | מלחך פ כא (bootlicker, flatterer, lickspit, sycophant, toady). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oadeatertay | ||||
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Words beginning with "TOADEATER": toadeaters. (additional references) | |
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"TOADEATER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: otaheite. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-o-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: aerated, rotated, tetrode, treated. | |
-3 letters: aerate, aortae, derate, dotter, orated, ratted, redate, retted, rotate, rotted, tarted, teared, teated, teredo, tetrad. | |
-4 letters: adore, aorta, areae, arete, attar, dater, datto, derat, deter, doter, eared, eater, erode, oared, oater, orate, oread, ottar, otter, rated, reata, rotte, tardo, tared, tarot, tatar, tater, tetra, torte, toted, toter, trade. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-o-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: toadeaters. | |
+3 letters: extrapolated. | |
+4 letters: oversaturated, tetartohedral. | |
+5 letters: overabstracted, recontaminated, stadtholderate, tatterdemalion. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 41 44 45 41 54 45 52 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- .- -.. . .- - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 01000001 01000100 01000101 01000001 01010100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O A D E A T E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0041 0044 0045 0041 0054 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)544935383935543952 |
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