Toad"y (?), n.; pl. Toadies (#). [Shortened from toadeater.]

1.

A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.

Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs. Dickens.

2.

A coarse, rustic woman.

[R.]

Sir W. Scott.

 

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Toad"y (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toadied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Toadying.]

To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.

 

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