The meaning of Toadies

noun

An obsequious or servile person.

Usage examples:

He's got bootlickers telling him what a big star he's going to be

noun

Someone who praises or is extremely polite to a more powerful or rich person in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get an advantage for themselves

Usage examples:

Even after years of being a magnet for bootlickers and overzealous admirers, he's still just a nice…

noun

A thing that crawls or moves at a slow pace, especially an insect.

Usage examples:

The light bulb was a magnet for moths and many-legged crawlers

verb

Move slowly and carefully in order to avoid being heard or noticed.

Usage examples:

He crept downstairs, hardly making any noise

noun

A detestable person.

Usage examples:

I thought he was a nasty little creep

verb

Move slowly

noun

A mat placed in a doorway, on which people can wipe their shoes on entering a building.

Usage examples:

The group is looking at manufacturing doormats and shoe soles out of recycled footwear.

noun

A piece of usually rough material outside a door to a house or apartment where people can clean their shoes before entering

noun

A person who gives a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection.

Usage examples:

Powerful people are always surrounded by fawners

noun

A person who lavishes praise, often insincerely; a sycophant.

Usage examples:

He is not allowing flatterers to deceive him

noun

A liveried manservant or footman.

Usage examples:

Liveried flunkies rushed forward to open the doors, tv lights flared, cameras flashed and the crowd…

noun

A person who does unimportant work or who has few or no important responsibilities and shows too much respect toward his or her employer

Usage examples:

He could snap his fingers and get his flunky to do it.

noun

A person who tries to be friendly and spend time with rich or important people to get some advantage

Usage examples:

Wherever there are rock stars, there are always hangers-on.

noun

A servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.

Usage examples:

Lackeys were waiting to help them from the carriage

verb

Behave in a servile way towards (someone).

Usage examples:

He had lacqueyed and flattered walpole

noun

A servant or someone who behaves like one by obeying someone else's orders or by doing unpleasant work for them

Usage examples:

He treats us all like his lackeys.

noun

An aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. many species are bloodsucking parasites, especially of vertebrates, and others are predators.

Usage examples:

The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic leeches that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker.

verb

Habitually exploit or rely on.

Usage examples:

He's leeching off the abilities of others

noun

A doctor or healer.

noun

A person who behaves obsequiously to those in power.

Usage examples:

He is a lickspittle for the establishment

noun

A person who praises and tries to please people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them

Usage examples:

He is a lickspittle who fawns before his aristocratic employers.

noun

A follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one.

Usage examples:

He gets oppressed minions like me to fob them off

noun

A person who is not important and who has to do what another person of higher rank orders them to do

Usage examples:

He sent one of his minions to do something about it.

noun

A movable model of a person or animal that is typically moved either by strings controlled from above or by a hand inside it.

Usage examples:

A puppet show

noun

A dog of a breed with a long silky coat and drooping ears.

Usage examples:

In the middle ages, a type of spaniel was bred, the ancestor of some of our modern spaniels, that w…

noun

A type of dog of small or medium size with soft hair and long ears that hang down

noun

A subordinate used by another to do unpleasant routine work.

Usage examples:

Party stooges put there to do a job on behalf of central office

verb

Move about aimlessly; drift or cruise.

Usage examples:

She stooged around in the bathroom for a while

noun

A person who is forced or paid by someone in authority to do an unpleasant or secret job for them

Usage examples:

The newly appointed mayor is widely regarded as a government stooge.

noun

A person who acts obsequiously towards someone important in order to gain advantage.

Usage examples:

Because he is high-ranking, he's surrounded by sycophants

noun

Someone who praises powerful or rich people in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get some advantage from them

Usage examples:

The prime minister is surrounded by sycophants.

pronoun

Plural form of thou1.

Usage examples:

Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may

determiner

Pseudo-archaic term for the.

Usage examples:

Ye olde cock tavern