Toady

Definition: Toady

Toady

Noun

1. A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage.

Verb

1. Tray to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss".

Date "toady" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Synonyms: Toady

Synonyms: crawler (n), lackey (n), sycophant (n), bootlick (v), fawn (v), kotow (v), kowtow (v), suck up (v), truckle (v). (additional references)

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).
Servility	Sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave; (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface , heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Toady

English words defined with "toady": Footlicker ♦ Toadeater, Toadied, Toadies, Toadying, Tufthunter. (references)

Specialty definitions using "toady": Lickspittle. (references)

Etymologies containing "toady": Bootlick ♦ Toadeater. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Toady and Dr Miracle (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Cayman Islands	The Cayman Islands' physical isolation under early British colonial rule allowed the development of an indigenous set of administrative and legal traditions which were codified into a constitution in 1959. Although still a British Crown Colony, the islands toady are self-governed in nearly all respects. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Toady" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Toady" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	90.91%	10	111,207
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	9.09%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	11	N/A

Expression using "toady": toady to. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "toady"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shanlëpirës (toad-eater), servil (bootlicker, crawler, creeping, fawning, obsequious, servile, subservient, sycophantic, toad-eater, toad-eating), lajkatar (adulatory, bootlicker, earthworm, flatterer, flunkey, flunky, honey-mouthed, lickspittle, obsequious, smooth tongued, soother, sycophant, toad-eater, toad-eating, wheedling). (various references)

Arabic		‏تملق شخصا (suck up), ‏تملق (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, cajole, cajolery, coax, coaxing, compliment, con, court, cringe, curry favor with, curry favour with, fawn, flatter, flattery, incense, ingratiate oneself, insinuation, kowtow, lick his boots, make, mawkish, oiliness, palaver, servilism, soap, soft soap, subservience, suck up to, sweet talk, taffy, wheedle), ‏تزلف (adulate, adulation, fawn), ‏المتملق (flatterer, lickspittle), ‏المتزلف (lacker, lickspittle). (various references)

Bulgarian		мазник (groveller, reptile, toad-eater), ласкател (flatterer, minion, smoothie), подлизурствувам (cringe, fawn, suck up, truckle), подлизурко (bootlicker, groveller, lickspittle, spaniel, sycophant, truckler). (various references)

Czech		podlézavec, patolízal (bootlicker, creep, groveller, lickspittle, sycophant, toad-eater), lísat se. (various references)

French		lécher les bottes, flatter (pander to), flagorneur, flagorner. (various references)

German		speichellecker (boot lick, bootlicker, lickspittle, toadies). (various references)

Greek		κόλαξ (coaxer, courtier, flatterer, sleeker), κολακεύω χαμερπώσ (toast), κολακεύω ταπεινά, παράσιτοσ (parasite, parasitic, sponge, sponger, trencherman). (various references)

Hebrew		מלחך פ� כא (bootlicker, flatterer, lickspit, sycophant, toadeater), מתרפס (bootlicker, cringer, fawning, groveller, menial, obsequious, servile, subservient), ל�"תח� ף (carry favour, fawn, ingratiate oneself, lick his boots), ל�"תרפס (bow and scrape, fawn, grovel, ingratiate oneself, kowtow, truckle), זחלן (dawdler, flunkey, sluggard), ח� פן (flatterer, sycophant). (various references)

Hungarian		talpnyaló (adulator, bootlicker, crawler, fawning, grovelling, minion, pipsqueak, slimy, spaniel, sycophant, sycophantic, toad-eater). (various references)

Italian		leccapiedi (bootlicker, flunkey, flunky, lickspittle, sycophant, toadies). (various references)

Pig Latin		oadytay

Portuguese		chaleira (crawler, kettle), bajulador (adulator, courtier, flattering, flunkey, fulsome, groveller, licorice, smarmy, smooth, toad-eater, truckler), adulador (adulatory, creeping, fawning, flatterer, flunkey, grow, lackey, lacquey, mealy mouthed, obsequious, smarmy, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, sugary, toad-eater, toad-eating, truckler, tuft hunter, unctuous). (various references)

Romanian		târâturã, linguşi (blandish, butter, cajole, coax, flannel, flatter, jolly, palaver, wheedle), cãţel (cub, doggie, doggy, flunkey, pup, puppy, whelp, young dog), ciocoi (exploiter, extortioner, fleecer, upstart), cirac (disciple, favorite, favourite), gudura, lichea (toad-eater), adula (adulate, blarney, flatter), linge (eat, lap, lick), linguşitor (adulatory, bootlicker, cajoler, cajoling, crawler, encomiast, fawning, flatterer, flattering, flunkey, gratifying, ingratiating, oilily, reptile, servile, sleek, smoothie, spaniel, supple, supply, sycophant, toad, toad-eater, toad-eating, yes man), linguşitor ordinar (lickspittle), parazit (dead beat, guest, hanger-on, leech, locust, parasite, parasitic, parasitical, pest, sponge, sponger, sycophant), peria (brush, dress, jolly), periuţã (brush, smoothie, sycophant), se linguşi (crawl, fawn, jolly, palaver, slaver, spaniel), lingãu (bootlicker, boot-licker, flunkey, glutton, lickspittle, minion, sponge, sycophant, toad, toad-eater). (various references)

Russian		лизоблюд (bootlicker, brown nose, brownnoser, lickspittle, sycophant), подхалим (bootlicker, earthworm, earth-worm, flunkey, groveller, lickspittle, minion, spaniel, sycophant, toad-eater, truckler, yes-man). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ulizica (bootlicker, groveller, lickspittle, sponger, sycophant, toad-eater, truckler, yes man, yesman), ulizički (adulatory, fawning, obsequious, smarmy, subservient, sycophantic, toad-eating), ulagivati se (adulate, curry favor, curry favour, fawn, fawn on, flatter, kowtow, pander, rush, toady to). (various references)

Spanish		lameculos (bootlicker, smoothie). (various references)

Swedish		smilfink, smickrare (apple polisher, flatterer, lickspittle, sycophant). (various references)

Turkish		yaltaklanmak (adulate, beslaver, blandish, blarney, bow and scrape, court, cringe, curry favor with smb., fawn, grovel, hustle, lick smb.'s boots, play to, slaver, soap down, truckle, wheedle), yağcı (apple polisher, buttery, crawler, deadhead, flatterer, greaser, greasy, gushing, gushy, lickspittle, loader, obsequious, oily, oleaginous, reptilian, silky, sleek, slime, soapy, suck, sucker), yağ çekmek (beslaver, beslobber, blandish, blarney, butter up, lay it on thickly, oil, palaver, shine up to, suck up to), dalkavukluk etmek (adulate, bootlick, brown-nose, fawn, lick smb.'s boots, suck up to), dalkavuk (adulator, adulatory, apple polisher, bootlicker, brown-nose, bumsucker, creeper, cringing, deadhead, flatterer, flunkey, flunky, groveler, groveller, lackey, minion, reptile, silky, soapy, sycophant, toadeating, tufthunter, yes man), şakşakçı (clapper). (various references)

Turkmen		яaranjaс (lickspittle, sycophant). (various references)

Ukrainian		нахлібник (dependant, freeloader, sponger, tame cat), жаб'ячий, блюдолиз (sycophant), підлесник (bootlicker, coax, courtier, flatterer, pickthank, sycophant, toad, wriggler). (various references)

Vietnamese		người xu nịnh (faltterer), người bợ đỡ (faltterer, spaniel). (various references)

Welsh		ffalsiwr (flatter), cynffonnwr (sycophant), cynffonna (cringe, fawn). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "toady": toadying, toadyish, toadyism, toadyisms. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Toady" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: goady, oday, otamy, otay, roady, taddy, tadly, tady, taory, taudy, teady, toade, toadie, toadier, toaid, tobay, toda, Todaym, todays, todi, todya, toiad, toid, Toida, toidy, Toity, Tokay, tolay, tomay, toody, touy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: today.
	Words within the letters "a-d-o-t-y"
	-1 letter: dato, doat, doty, toad, tody.
	-2 letters: ado, day, dot, oat, tad, tao, tod, toy, yod.
	-3 letters: ad, at, ay, do, od, oy, ta, to, ya, yo.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-o-t-y"
	+1 letter: todays.
	+2 letters: athodyd, dacoity, dakoity, tardyon.
	+3 letters: additory, adroitly, antibody, aroynted, athodyds, auditory, autodyne, boatyard, dilatory, dotardly, dynatron, dystocia, dystonia, dystopia, hydrator, idolatry, modality, nodality, petalody, podiatry, sodality, sudatory, tardyons, toadying, toadyish, toadyism, towardly.
	+4 letters: adipocyte, adiposity, adulatory, arytenoid, asyndeton, autodynes, autolysed, autolyzed, bayoneted, boatyards, cordately, courtyard, damnatory, deviatory, dynamotor, dynatrons, dystocias, dystonias, dystopian, dystopias, feudatory, hydathode, hydration, hydrators, laudatory, mandatory, martyrdom, mediatory, molybdate, mordantly, nonsteady, outplayed, outprayed, outstayed, outwardly, portrayed, predatory, stockyard, tallyhoed, thylakoid, thyroidal, toadyisms, wyandotte.
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