Toadying

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Toady \Toad"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toadied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Toadying}.]
     To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
     [1913 Webster]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "toadying":
     abject, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, backscratching, beggarly,
     bootlicking, brown-nosing, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching,
     fawnery, fawning, flattering, flunkyism, footlicking, groveling,
     handshaking, hangdog, ingratiating, ingratiation, insinuation,
     kowtowing, mealymouthed, mealymouthedness, obeisance, obeisant,
     obsequious, obsequiousness, on bended knee, parasitic, parasitism,
     prostrate, prostration, sniveling, sponging, sycophancy,
     sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadyish, toadyism,
     truckling, tufthunting