The meaning of Toadying

Toadying – definition

verb
Act in an obsequious way.
Usage examples:
She imagined him toadying to his rich clients
Synonims:
Be obsequious towards Be servile towards Be sycophantic towards Grovel to Kowtow to Abase oneself to Demean oneself to Bow and scrape to Prostrate oneself to Truckle to Make up to Play up to

noun
A person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.
Usage examples:
He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady, a…

noun
A pufferfish.

noun
A lot of praise and artificially pleasant behaviour towards someone in authority, in an effort to get some advantage
Usage examples:
She welcomed them with enthusiasm that bordered on toadying., he operated by shameless toadying to …

Toadying translation into English

Toadying: translate from English into Chinese

谄媚, 拍马屁, 谄, 阿谀, 谀

Toadying: translate from English into Dutch

Aan het verdoven

Toadying: translate from English into French

Flagornerie

Toadying: translate from English into German

Kriechen, Speichellecken, Servil schmeicheln

Toadying: translate from English into Hindi

टोडीइंग

Toadying: translate from English into Italian

Leccando

Toadying: translate from English into Korean

토딩, 아첨하다

Toadying: translate from English into Russian

Подхалимство, Льстить, Низкопоклонничать

Toadying: translate from English into Spanish

Halagando

Word origin

early 19th century: said to be a contraction of toad-eater, a charlatan's assistant who ate toads; toads were regarded as poisonous, and the assistant's survival was thought to be due to the

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Toadying – similar words

toadies

ˈtəʊ.di

noun
A person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.
Usage examples:
He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady, a…

verb
Act in an obsequious way.
Usage examples:
She imagined him toadying to his rich clients

noun
A person who praises and is artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them
Usage examples:
Everywhere he goes he is surrounded by an entourage of toadies., shostakovich was often seen as a p…

All meanings and translations of Toadies

toadied

verb
Act in an obsequious way.
Usage examples:
She imagined him toadying to his rich clients

noun
A person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.
Usage examples:
He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady, a…

noun
A pufferfish.

All meanings and translations of Toadied

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