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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage;
[syn: sycophant, toady, crawler, lackey, ass-kisser]


VERB (1)

1. try to gain favor by cringing or flattering;
- Example: "He is always kowtowing to his boss"
[syn: fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Toady \Toad"y\, n.; pl. Toadies. [Shortened from toadeater.] 1. A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant. [1913 Webster] Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs. --Dickens. [1913 Webster] 2. A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Toady \Toad"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toadied; p. pr. & vb. n. Toadying.] To fawn upon with mean sycophancy. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

toady n 1: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage [syn: sycophant, toady, crawler, lackey, ass-kisser] v 1: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

66 Moby Thesaurus words for "toady": apple-polish, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, bend the knee, bootlick, bootlicker, bow, bow and scrape, brown-nose, brownie, clawback, courtier, cower, crawl, creature, creep, cringe, cringer, crouch, dupe, fawn, fawner, flatter, flatterer, flunky, follow, footlicker, grovel, groveler, handshaker, helot, instrument, jackal, kneel, kowtow, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lick the dust, lickspit, lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, peon, puppet, serf, slave, spaniel, stooge, stoop, suck, sycophant, tag, tail, timeserver, toad, toadeat, toadeater, tool, trail, truckle, truckler, tufthunter, yes-man