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TOADEATER

Definition: TOADEATER

TOADEATER

Noun

1. A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer; a toady.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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)


Synonyms within Context: TOADEATER

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Modern Translation: TOADEATER

Language Translations for "TOADEATER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hebrew 

  

מלחך פ כא (bootlicker, flatterer, lickspit, sycophant, toady). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oadeatertay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: TOADEATER

Derivations

Words beginning with "TOADEATER": toadeaters. (additional references)


Misspellings

"TOADEATER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: otaheite. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: TOADEATER

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TOADEATER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F 41 44 45 41 54 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    ---    .-    -..    .    .-    -    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 01000001 01000100 01000101 01000001 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#65 &#68 &#69 &#65 &#84 &#69 &#82

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544935383935543952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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