sycophant, toady, crawler, lackey, ass-kisser
(noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up
(verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; “He is always kowtowing to his boss”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
toady (plural toadies)
A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage or an obsequious lackey or minion
(archaic) A coarse, rustic woman.
• See also sycophant
toady (third-person singular simple present toadies, present participle toadying, simple past and past participle toadied)
(intransitive, construed with to) To behave like a toady (to someone).
toady (comparative more toady, superlative most toady)
toadlike
• to-day, today
Source: Wiktionary
Toad"y, n.; pl. Toadies. Etym: [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.
Toad"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toadied; p. pr. & vb. n. Toadying.]
Definition: To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
