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TOADYISM

Definition: TOADYISM

TOADYISM

Noun

1. The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TOADYISM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references)


Crosswords: TOADYISM

English words defined with "TOADYISM": Flunlyism. (references)

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Modern Translation: TOADYISM

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

Albanian

  

shanlëpirje, servilje (toad-eating). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏التملق (courtliness). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ласкателство (adulation, blandishment, blarney, cajolement, cajolery, flattery, lip salve, oil, palaver, soap, soft sawder, soft soap, sweet talk, taffy), подмазвачество, подлизурство (fawning, obsequiousness, slime, sycophancy, toad-eating). (various references)

   

French

  

lèche. (various references)

   

German

  

Speichelleckereien, Speichelleckerei (bootlicking). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κολακεία (adulation, blandishment, blarney, flattery, wheedling). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

talpnyalás (adulation, blarney, fulsome flattery, slaver, soft solder, sycophancy, toad-eating). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oadyismtay

   

Portuguese

  

servilismo (abjection, cringing, obsequiousness, servility, subservience), bajulação (adulation, blarney, courtliness, fawning, palaver), adulação (adulation, blarney, cajolement, cajolery, coaxing, cringing, fawning, flatting, sawder, sugar). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

lichelism (flunkeyism, rascaldom). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

раболепство (obsequiousness, servility), проживание на чужой счет. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ulagivanje (flattery, obsequiousness, suck up). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yağcılık (blandishment, blarney, butter, claptrap, greasiness, insinuation, obsequiousness, oiliness, soapiness, sycophancy, taffy, toadeating), dalkavukluk (adulation, blarney, butter, flattery, flunkeyism, flunkyism, obsequiousness, slavishness, soapiness, sycophancy, toadeating). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thói xu nịnh, thói bợ đỡ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: TOADYISM

Derivations

Words beginning with "TOADYISM": toadyisms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"TOADYISM" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: toadism, tsadihim. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: TOADYISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-i-m-o-s-t-y"

-1 letter: daimyos, diatoms, mastoid.

-2 letters: admits, amidst, daimyo, diatom, dismay, todays.

-3 letters: adios, adits, admit, amido, amids, amity, atoms, atomy, daisy, datos, ditas, ditsy, doats, doits, iotas, maids, maist, mayos, mayst, midst, misdo, misty, moats, moist, myoid, mysid, odist, omits, ostia, sayid, staid, stimy, stoai, stoma, tamis, toads, toady, today, tsadi.

-4 letters: adit, ados, aids.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-m-o-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: toadyisms.

 

+3 letters: myocarditis.

 

+4 letters: domestically.

 

+5 letters: basidiomycete, dissimilatory, dynamometries, mastoidectomy, myocarditises.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TOADYISM


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

54 4F 41 44 59 49 53 4D

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 01011001 01001001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#65 &#68 &#89 &#73 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 0041 0044 0059 0049 0053 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

5449353859435347

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INDEX

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


  

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